Comment by jimnotgym
7 months ago
It is a very interesting counterpoint to the line throughout this discussion that the UK is some kind of oppressive state, yet you state here that in the US a cop can arrest people just because they want to. That would be an extreme edge case in the UK. Constitutional freedom of speech, and a paramilitary police force that can ignore the law.
Yeah it sucks. The police are pretty unaccountable due to their local nature and their unions. When people try to do something about it they go on 'soft strike' and refuse to enforce basic laws in retaliation.