French President Emmanuel Macron has declined to condemn the country’s top police chiefs for appearing to suggest officers were above the law, seeking to stave off unrest among security forces wearied…
National police chief: "a police officer should not be in prison, even if he may have committed serious faults or errors in the course of his work." Left-wing opposition blasted government for failing to rein in “a police hierarchy that places itself above the law”.
Police black-mails the government at every riot or whatever. They threaten not to protect the government if they are not given always more impunity. And it works every time. They started to kill and mutilate a lot more, and now guess what, they want more impunity.
This shit show accelerated under Macron, it's out of control. The recruiting standards were lowered at rock bottom, the training time has been shortened and they lowered the bar again. The job attracts mostly sociopaths these days as it's mostly about riot control, i.e. randomly breaking skulls and getting away with it.
A police officer "should not" be in prison? Sure, only in the sense that nobody "should" be. People sometimes wind up in prison after doing things they "should not" do. Why "should" that not apply to police too?
I suppose that depends on the mistake. If I "make a mistake" and someone ends up dead by my hand, I could expect to be treated differently from if I "make a mistake" and burn the cookies I'm baking.
Sounds like the kind of police force with the perfect conditions to be rife with criminality and corruption: those who put the esprit de corps ahead of Justice like this to protect a "few" bad apples with this kind of statements and demonstrations, are not going to be firm about the application of the law when it comes to the "making of a little money on the side" (such as with bribes), for their colleagues and quite possibly for themselves.
Am I wrong in thinking that French people tend to see the police and military as being there to control people rather than to help them (more so in the last couple of decades)? Which does not seem to be the case in the USA, for instance.