Can the police be trusted?

[Jordy]

Just something I've often wondered, lots of people on here and in real life always seem to be very sceptical towards the police, often accusing them of corruption and being unable to trust them.

Personally I can't understand this as my experiences with the police have all been very positive and I don't see anything to believe they're corrupt or not there to help the community but that's just my view anyway

[Technologic]

Of course, just because there is the odd story in the paper about a bad copper doesn't make the entire force bad.

[Inseriousity.]

On the whole yes. While I don't think every cop is corrupted, I do like to remember that they're human and therefore just as infallible as the rest of us so I can't trust them 100% but I trust that the majority do their job as best they can.

[Stephen]

depends on the area. In my area the police are complete **** and I wouldn't trust them with my life. Especially the ones that look about 18

[Arch]

Personally from an expereince i have had, i cant trust any police and i never will. I understand there not all the same but one time a cop beat the **** outta me for no reason,
he drove me to a alley way and told me he was gonna knock all my teeth out and kill me and no one would ever know. At the end he punched me a couple times and left. I couldnt get down the plates of the squad car and he drove away really fast but thats my experience. I was also not doing anything wrong i was walking with a group of friends leaving a party. I don't dress the nicest (baggy clothes - gangster look i guess you could say) so maybe he just profiled me?

Anyways thats my experience in a very short verision, not sure if you'll believe it or not but it did happen.

[ChickenFaces]

Well if police weren't corrupt and stupid and believed that they were above the law then people would trust them.
It's as simple as not being a hypocrite and following the rules that you enforce. But who wants to do that anymore?

[Jordy]

Personally from an expereince i have had, i cant trust any police and i never will. I understand there not all the same but one time a cop beat the **** outta me for no reason,
he drove me to a alley way and told me he was gonna knock all my teeth out and kill me and no one would ever know. At the end he punched me a couple times and left. I couldnt get down the plates of the squad car and he drove away really fast but thats my experience. I was also not doing anything wrong i was walking with a group of friends leaving a party. I don't dress the nicest (baggy clothes - gangster look i guess you could say) so maybe he just profiled me?

Anyways thats my experience in a very short verision, not sure if you'll believe it or not but it did happen.

Sorry to hear that, that's very unfortunate and wrong, shame you can't do anything about it :/

Also I'm guessing these are Canadian cops just to clarify?

[Caution]

Definetley not. There's a Policeman across the road from me that's been on his phone in his car before and an ex-policeman at my mum's work was complaining how the new electronic form of taking someones details isn't as good as paper form. He just realised he'd admitted they used to change details once they'd left interviewing/questioning someone.

[Seth]

Yeah the media promotes a lot of issues which lead to the police getting a bad reputation for the odd thing. Sometimes even the run through of 'Moral Panic' But in general there is nothing wrong with them at all. As long as they have their badge and so on then they're fine to me because they have went through training and stuff.

[Narnat,]

In life your always going to have a bad apple and this includes in the law too. I think 99.9% of the time it gives of a positive reaction rather than a negative.