Greta75
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ORIGINAL: Edwird Yes, I was exaggerating just a bit about the SWAT team coming out. But it's only just short of that. My dad got harassed ~ 20 years ago when my brother got pulled over on his way to our vacation cabin, held for 4 hours, nothing resembling even probable cause to begin with, and were very ugly to him. My dad called to register his complaint, and the original cop called back and threatened to arrest my brother and my dad all at once, even bragging with no cause. The police department let him do this, obviously, so how is a complaint going to do any good? There was realistic threat of arrest just for complaining about genuine harassment. This really sucks. I don't know how you guys do things there. But usually, we will try to find someone higher. Like maybe your Mayor is the equivalent of our MP? If not, we will write to the Prime Minister or the Media. Our Media is actually very powerful and have helped alot of injustice situations get government attention and resolution. While there is only one government controlled media, but the media is really self-regulated based on government given guidelines, so, the government wants the media to bring to their attention anything that deserves their attention. So many times, the media is able to post any government fuck ups too or incompetence. The guideline is, just don't post anything that could incite religious or racial wars. It has to be based on facts. Reported devoid of emotion. Also, these days, with all our Ministers on Facebook actively personally posting, connecting with citizens. Someone just need to post it on their Facebook page, immediately, many will see and it will spread. They gotta address it. It's pretty hard to ignore injustice of anything these days at least in my part of the world. There is always a channel you could pursue. A complaint against a police officer with the police threatening you back is like a serious offense and corruption over here. I can't even imagine the possibility of that happening! And even during my childhood growing up, I'm actually hanging out at Police Stations chilling with the Police. They were also young officers often in their twenties. And they provide free engraving services so I always take my things to get engraved there. It's like completely illegal to like gather in a group in public after 10pm or something, and I often get round up by police who will send me home to my parents. Things like that, but they were always kind and lecture me, it's dangerous to hang out so late, AS IF it was dangerous in Singapore to do that. It is seriously two different universe.
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