If it wasnt for th police, there ould have been no riots in recent years.
... of cases of police officers fired for indecent assaults, misconduct and crimes, including drug trafficking, attempted murder , theft, misuse of informants, consorting with prostitutes and causing major riots. “Most studies support the view that corruption is endemic, if not universal, in police departments. The danger of corruption for police may invert the formal goals of the organisation and may lead to the use of organisational power to encourage and create crime rather than to deter it.” Sherman 1978 page 31. This report, found that about one in 1,000 agents and police officers were dismissed for serious misconduct or criminal offences during 1986 to 1999, the average was 8 and 9 per year. Police brutality is often used in riots to gain control, often using three elements: Misuse of Authority, Misuse of Personal Attainments and finally Misuse Official Capacity. (Dantzker 1995, page 157). “One of the stranger episodes to occur throughout the Seattle WTO was when 100 police cars circled downtown Seattle with their lights and sirens blaring. There was no immediate emergency, the only apparent reason for this was to try and intimidate the civilian population” CopWatch.com. The Police officers try to show the public that they are in control in a variety of ways: brutality on civilians “Man settles for $30,000 after his arm was broken by a police officer”, CopWatch.com, discrimination “The arrest of a black Man, has led to hundreds of youths rampaging through the streets of Brixton in South London”, BBC, 11 April 1981. Sexual harassment ““A woman alleges that a police officer beat her leg with a baton the previous day, in the absence of any justification whatsoever. She still has not settled for any compensation” CopWatch.com, Intimidation “Use of pepper spray on non-violent protestors “that is not how we move people” asserts County Sheriff, just before the numerous spray fests” CopWatch.com, and illicit use of weapons “A squadron of police officers utilized chemical weapons, pepper spray, plastic bullets and rubber bullets to attack peaceful demonstrators near Third and Pike, an area which was outside Seattle’s City’s so-called ‘No Protest Zone’. In such a situation of police brutality, the public may view the police as oppressors, and the police may begin to view the public as criminals. Brutality not only applies to use of reasonable physical force but to threats and assault as well. This normally elicits a feeling of betrayal amongst the public causing them to eventually hit out against the police. In the famous Brixton Riot of 1981, the police were accused of heavy handedness, whilst trying to control petrol bombs being thrown, school and pubs being set alight, shops being looted and cars being burnt. “The police just sat and watched the shops being broken into; they were apparently ordered not to intervene.” Shop owner on BBC news clip. Due to this riot 150 police were hurt, 24 officers got rushed to hospital and of those only 1 was seriously injured. 20 people were arrested. “It was one of the worst riots seen in Britain” Gavin Hewitt. Many people have said that it the fault of the Operation swamp: A Special police operation that enabled the police to stop and question people randomly in order to crack down on street crime. However many black people felt they were being unjustly singled out by white officers showing White Authority. The result of this ended a week before the riot in which a black man was arrested and causing unrest. Two months previously a local council published a report about the state of police / community relations in Brixton and stated that many blacks believe they were being targeted by the police purely on race. This riot brought an end to the “Sus” law, and the Scarman report led to the setting up of the police Complaints Authority. However, following this in 1985, there were further riots in Brixton after a black woman was accidentally shot and wounde...