When some people have an instant disrespect for a person in uniform.
Unfortunatly that is also me, but rather Im male, white, middle aged and privllaged according to the SJW/Woke f***wits of the chattering classes. Due to how I have been treated by the police as a motorcylist and as a regular person, I am always wary of them and avoid interaction unless required.
Do shop assistants keep a special eye on you in case you're going to try to nick stuff?
Maybe its me, but even with my crash helmet off...!!!, security guards stare at me, which is ironic as theese guards tend to be of ethnic minority.
"So woke"? You mean trying hard not to be "Institutionally Racist"?!
I agree which this statment.
When Global Warming starts having a real effect, that's going to make life a hell of a lot more tougher for you and everyone else.
The govement and councils are 'already' trying to do something about this. And while some of these inicitives are laudable, some councils are are not using upto date or accurate data to accomplish this. For example Hackney is basing its parking charges on emissions data thats 30yrs old, yeah you read that right. So 10 years before the first euro standard (2002) for motorcycles.
They have *tried* protesting "nicely". There have been campaigns and petitions and letters to MPs and TV programmes and warnings from scientists and successive governments have said "Yes, we agree, something needs to be done" before they kick the can down the road again.
There are ways of starting a dialogue, it doesent always work of course. Which is why physically protesting is required, but there are ways of protesting that dont make life difficult for everyone else. For example I marshalled on the Hackney protest ride a short while back where several hundred bikers did several loops of central Hackney against the proposed parking charges. It didnt stop any one from going about thier business and it got us a meeting with a Hackney counciler.
- But I'm sure you'd rather the Police just lock them all away.
- Just like those who think a "few broken bones" might deter others
- we take another step down the slippery slope to living in a wonderfully dystopian Police State...
-On a related but important issue there is previous and exusting UK goverments have given the police too many extra powers when there was already existing law/powers in place. As in the ability to protest lawfully whithout fear of arrest, which the goverment are desperatly trying to prevent.
- Dude, you cant compare scrotes on a stolen moped to climate protesters.
- I cant argue with that, as its already happening.
But we are getting off topic here, the OP was about how the police deal with suspects on scooters.