A few years ago, the Police Force in NSW had a name change > "Police Service".
A few years later, with the premise of kicking more butt, they changed back >"Police Force".
When you Nathan call a mate "a mate", the Police call their mates "comrades".
When the culture within the Police Force takes on a 'them vs us' attitude rather than a 'we' attitude, something is wrong with society at the top level; and this is despite the spruiking spin that comes out of the mouths of superintendents/commissioner on TV
This all leads to a general distrust of the police, and not want to talk to them unless something desperate is going on.
But then, they can have a hard job determining which of us are reasonable, constructive and credible unless they go halfway themselves to talk to us earthlings.
I'm talking about attitudes here - not about stereotyping all coppers.
For instance, one time when I went to check my tyres in a 2 Hour Zone, my Honda Prelude daily was brushed on the corner of the bar by some other car.
I could recall that there was an olive coloured Aurion parked there earlier.
The dude had moved his car a little way further on after our tyres had been chalked.
And there was some of my blue paint on his bumper.
Angry as hell, I walked up to Penrith Cop Stn to report this farkin idiot. I'd taken down the carpark positions of the two cars.
Halfway up there, I'm thinking, "What the hell is he/she going to do anyway?"
Whilst reporting it, the young copper said, "Give me your phone number and I'll take a walk down there during lunch".
He called me back and said, "That's definitely your paint on his car, and I can see some of his on yours too. Now I left a note on his windscreen to the effect that he should come up to the Stn and see Constable XXX to discuss accident damage to his car. Now he may deny it: he may not. If he doesn't well, you may be in luck"
Later that afternoon, the Aurion driver rocks up to the Constable who gave him a blast and got his details for me to contact to organise reparation to my Prelude.
I'm talking about attitudes here. I hope one day that he makes a great detective; because he even went to the trouble of taking a tape measure to check the heights of the scrapes off the ground on both cars. Brilliant!!!!!
PS There in the NSW Subforum, there's a "Traffic Lawyer" thread on who to contact if one needs representation to handle police matters. One of the lawyers used to be SAU.NSW Prez.