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writes:Hi, being a popular site I thought some great answers would come for this so I thought why not? With Britt Lapthornes murder being police that did it, I'm just thinking who can we trust? Nobody! It seems. It makes me wonder did Maddie Mcain get kidnapped or worse by police, and the Bomont children I bet police did that too? What do you think about this? Plus do you think police get off too easy for murder, brutality and so on? Reply to this Question
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reader, Kepi  +, writes (16 February 2009):
 I agree with Dazzerg. No-one is, or should be above the law, I think actually you will find that the police face even more scrutiny than the 'normal' citizen, and if found guilty of a charge will certainly face much harsher punishment.
Of course, there are always bad apples in the barrel, but on the whole they are the exception rather than the rule.
On the menendez case, dazzerg mentioned, I have followed this quite closely, albeit thru the media so a pinch of salt needs to be applied.
It is tragic that an innocent has been killed, but in light of the situation and fear of further bombings, i think the intelligence gathering needs to be investigated not the officers who carried out the act, they were charged with protecting the public and seeing a guy running with a rucksack to the train, well, in that position i am sure I would have acted in the same way as the police, they were relying on information provided (correct or incorrect - its the information that they were given) and have to act based on that information, if it had turned out they had dithered and another bomb had gone off, well there would have been public outrage.
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reader, Dazzerg +, writes (15 February 2009):
 Ignoring your rather flight's of fancyish conspiracy theories I think nobody should be above being subject to the law, especially not those who enforce it. If anything it must apply especially stringently in that case to ensure there can be a bond of trust between the police and the communities they are in. Over here we had the assorted lunacy and white-wash over John Charles De Menzes but I presume you have your own reason for not trusting the boys in blue which you may or not care to eleborate on.
I think in the De Menzes case they did...somebody has to pay the price when an innocent is killed even if its only resignation and not formal criminal charges. I think by-and-large the police can be trusted its just in case where they cannot they tend to get highlighted but they are the exception not a rule.
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