Re: Police Raiding to 'Prove or Disprove'

On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 10:58:45 +0100, "Dave Baker"
<DaveBaker@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"Alex Heney" <me8@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 09:24:35 +0100, MM <kylix_is@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:56:09 +0100, Alex Heney <me8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Well there is generally a much stronger anti-police feeling in this
newsgroup than there is among the general public.

How do you know?

The survey recently discussed here, showing far more positive
attitudes among the general public than are prevalent here.

And it is, as I said, not really surprising either.

It is the same as the way looking at ISP support newsgroups would give
the impression that most customers were unhappy, while it is usually
only actually a small proportion.

This assumes that people only come onto this group because they've had a bad
experience with the police.

No., it assumes that a lot of people only come on here because they
have had a bad experience with the law.

Not everybody, by any means.

But enough to seriously skew the average attitudes.

In fact the vast majority just want some legal
opinion on a contract dispute. I don't think there's any way of knowing what
proportion might be pro or anti police based solely on their appearance in
here.

The majority of those people do not stay as "regulars", and although I
didn't specify "regulars" in my OP, I should have done.



AOL are currently running a poll about whether you trust the police or not
after Forest Gate. At present it stands at about 52% still do, 40 something
percent don't and the rest aren't sure. Is that wildly different from the
percentages in here?


Probably not wildly so, but as with all such polls, it is meaningless
as a judge of real proportions, because it is self selecting.

The survey discussed previously took a random selection (of many
thousands of people), which is the only way to get a representative
cross section of views.


However you slice it there are massive numbers of people out there who no
longer trust the police.

No doubt about that.

But not *as* massive a number as many on here seem to think.


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