Bag's Rants

Is a coppers life worth more than a member of the public?

There is a lot of talk about the policewoman killed in a raid on Friday. Read more here. I wasn't going to say any more about it but I read in this report that they had arrested six people for this. A murder in the UK is still uncommon enough to get action.

What does get my back up is that the Ex Met guy Stevens has said the death penalty should be reinstated for police killers. Now personally I'm against the death penalty because there are so many innocents in jail who have been fitted up by these same police officers. We only hear about the ones that can prove they have been fitted up. There must be thousands of them in the UK.

But, why just police killers? Is not my life just as important? Are our deaths so insignificant that a few years and then released on license is a fit punishment but a cop killer is executed.

Maybe they will do this during the arrest to save the time and money spent on that pesky trial and subsequent appeal where the real evidence comes up.

posted by Bag @ 1:08 am