24 Hours in Police Custody: Ch4

[KittyLitter]

There is no mention at the end what her punishment was? whats the point in the episode if there is no information on the outcome?!

[Chauffard]

KittyLitter said:

In the space of 5 mins, the word 'mate' has been said about 50 times. Why do the police call criminals 'mate' and vice versa?

That is annoying, I notice this quite a bit on TV police procedurals, I'd prefer less matey-ness towards drug dealing gangsters from the arresting coppers and the desk sergeant.

[DoubleSix]

Chauffard said:

KittyLitter said:

In the space of 5 mins, the word 'mate' has been said about 50 times. Why do the police call criminals 'mate' and vice versa?

That is annoying, I notice this quite a bit on TV police procedurals, I'd prefer less matey-ness towards drug dealing gangsters from the arresting coppers and the desk sergeant.

I raised this on another thread some time ago and was shouted down by the resident bib who explained it basically makes their life easier and avoids confrontation.

Pathetic.

[bishop finger]

KittyLitter said:

There is no mention at the end what her punishment was? whats the point in the episode if there is no information on the outcome?!

As a pwecious feemayul we can only assume she wasn't jailed, some community order, a few hours of community service for a 200k+ swindle of an old mans life savings. That said the money would've only gone to the state / the kings coffers / upkeep of illegal immigrants so who cares

[DoubleSix]

bishop finger said:

KittyLitter said:

There is no mention at the end what her punishment was? whats the point in the episode if there is no information on the outcome?!

As a pwecious feemayul we can only assume she wasn't jailed, some community order, a few hours of community service for a 200k+ swindle of an old mans life savings. That said the money would've only gone to the state / the kings coffers / upkeep of illegal immigrants so who cares

As someone explained previously it’s likely she cut a deal which helped seal the fate of the ringleader. The program made a point that the cases were linked.

[bishop finger]

DoubleSix said:

As someone explained previously it’s likely she cut a deal which helped seal the fate of the ringleader. The program made a point that the cases were linked.

There is no defense of that. If a straight white working class male committed the same crime he'd be looking at 6-10 years; there'd be no 'special deals'

[normalbloke]

KittyLitter said:

The lawyer who wants to buy a Porsche Turbo S. At his waist size he'd be lucky to fit in a bus!

I couldn’t get over the tt knot on the top of his head.

[F8Spiderman]

Stop calling them mate!!!

They have names, use them.

Boils my…

[hairykrishna]

bishop finger said:

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newsmanchester/prol...

He has "previous" which appears related to similar petty crime. Nothing comparable to that £300,000 fraud to which it's difficult to find the female perps actual sentence, including barely her name or photograph

Edited by bishop finger on Tuesday 3rd December 21:24

He has absolutely tons of previous. It looks like he got the longer sentence for breaching the previous criminal behaviour order that was put in place last time he nicked a bunch of people's cards.

[DoubleSix]

bishop finger said:

DoubleSix said:

As someone explained previously it’s likely she cut a deal which helped seal the fate of the ringleader. The program made a point that the cases were linked.

There is no defense of that. If a straight white working class male committed the same crime he'd be looking at 6-10 years; there'd be no 'special deals'

Perhaps, perhaps not. We don’t know the details and your example is a hypothetical.

I’m not defending the scabby wretch but it might be more complex than you perceive it to be.

[mgtony]

Recently in the news, try £3.3 million scammed with her husband while working at HMRC. No prison for her either:

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/ex-hmrc-offi...

[BritishBlitz87]

I think prison or unpaid community service at the value of £11.44 an hour until the value of the theft or fraud committed is paid off would be a nice, simple, just minimum punishment.

[rallycross]

Bluedot said:

richhead said:

This episode summed up the state of the world now.
Old guy who doesnt understand tech has all his money stolen by junkie family member.
Wanbe gangsters thinking they above the law.
And that lawyer , well i have no words.
I did feel sorry for the old man, and pleased the home will keep him.
The whole thing was fairly depressing.

Add in old boy having to sell his house to pay for care as well.

Agree with the above was all rather depressing apart from the care home letting him stay

[KittyLitter]

F8Spiderman said:

Stop calling them mate!!!

They have names, use them.

Boils my…

Agree. I am not going to watch it anymore, I simply can not deal with the use of the word mate. They are not your mate, so why even say it?!

[C5_Steve]

bishop finger said:

DoubleSix said:

As someone explained previously it’s likely she cut a deal which helped seal the fate of the ringleader. The program made a point that the cases were linked.

There is no defense of that. If a straight white working class male committed the same crime he'd be looking at 6-10 years; there'd be no 'special deals'

Could you keep your baseless conspiracy theories to NP&E perhaps? Ta.

[C5_Steve]

DoubleSix said:

Chauffard said:

KittyLitter said:

In the space of 5 mins, the word 'mate' has been said about 50 times. Why do the police call criminals 'mate' and vice versa?

That is annoying, I notice this quite a bit on TV police procedurals, I'd prefer less matey-ness towards drug dealing gangsters from the arresting coppers and the desk sergeant.

I raised this on another thread some time ago and was shouted down by the resident bib who explained it basically makes their life easier and avoids confrontation.

Pathetic.

Fairy certain I was in that thread and you weren't shouted down, you were provided a perfectly reasonable explanation from serving and ex police as to why it happens. Not sure why that wasn't good enough for you and it bothers you so much? Its not a "friendly" term at all. You have to remember that at the point of arrest everyone is still innocent (in this country at least). So it doesn't benefit anyone to treat those being arrested any differently. Hence "mate" or "fella" or "buddy" or whatever is easiest without having to be personal.

[MBVitoria]

Glad the drug dealers got convicted, although the 9 year sentence for the ringleader is a bit of a joke bearing in mind he'll probably be out at the halfway point.

[CountyAFC]

I don't think they were moving huge amounts.

Didn't of the coppers say that some of the proper boys from Luton would just shoot these 3, if they could be bothered to take over Biggleswade?

[Dashnine]

CountyAFC said:

I don't think they were moving huge amounts.

Didn't of the coppers say that some of the proper boys from Luton would just shoot these 3, if they could be bothered to take over Biggleswade?

And pretty poor quality stuff to it seemed (not that I'm any judge!).

I think if it was these 3 went on to Luton OCG turf, they'd just shoot them - which shocked me a little that Luton has an OCG (i.e. a relatively small place, I naïvely thought OCGs would be only in the bigger cities). Although what makes an OCG over these three other than a tad more organisation (not taking payment via bank transfer etc.) I'm not entirely sure.

[p4cks]

KittyLitter said:

Agree. I am not going to watch it anymore, I simply can not deal with the use of the word mate. They are not your mate, so why even say it?!

And when you watch the likes of Police Interceptors, you'll see that if you dare called a copper 'mate', invariably their response is 'I'm not your mate'