A question of respect (let the flaming begin...)

[Gingernutz]

I'm a nurse by trade and many of my colleagues went out with and in some cases married cops. There were some right knobs in training but a lot didn't last long. A lot of them were typical lads liking nothing better than a beer and a fight on a night out.  They were not worried about waving warrant cards when things got sticky.  I'm 43 so the ones still in are the same age and they are a decent lot.


I wouldn't hesitate to jump in and help wrestle the toerag fighting with an isolated copper to the ground. Their job can be shit, thankless and stressful so there are bound to be times frayed nerves come across badly. That doesn't make them bad people. It helps that I am a white middleclass middle age numpy - I am Irish though and my memory stretches back to the days of innocent until proven Irish. If I was a young black guy getting pulled a lot who knows....  Take them as you find them - they are just people and generalising never gets you anywhere with people