Are women turned off by men who hav done time in prison? (145)

Sad but true... People have forgotten the simple power in questioning things _flower:

Thanks, G!

not the only read on the subject..
hello to Ambrose.. always nice to see you..
Bradburry and Huxley -"Brave New World" and "Farenheit451"...
things have been spoken and will be..
but,in reality what alternatives do we have..instead of being policed?

Saudi Arabia's royal family are in better terms with US than with Bin Laden. That's what we know here.

All people can do is sing about it, or talk about it. The rich will always have the power, and the poor will have to pay.

Could be. I don't think they are going to take a chance on it though, blood being thicker than water and all that.

Take back the things that we had as a right before the P C brigade, elements of the heath and safety took over, give kids back the right to be kids in school with all the rough and tumble it involves.

Admit accidents do happen and blame is not always attributable to anyone.

Restrict the over use of powers given to cover extreme incidents.

And bring back the common sense approach to life ....As always JMO

[quote=Jamess1974Are women turned off by men who have done time in prison?For me: absolutely, positively without a doubt yes, it is a total turn off. I don't expect a man to be any better than I am. I have managed to avoid prison all of my life, and it wasn't hard at all, avoiding prison, so I expect to have in my life someone who was able to avoid prison as well.

true,things get OTT,but,they like all public services aim to respond to public demand..

Police serve the public as well as control the public based on the given circumstance at the time.

I'd say the police are pretty good at getting speeders, drunks and reckless drivers on the roads. There are legal road laws made for a reason. Ask any parent who has lost a child(grown or still young)to drunk drivers or reckless drivers. To get the drivers off the road before someone dies, be it themselves or others is a service to the public as well as a control to the driver himself.

Another example is the college kids on certain traditional "college holiday" traditions. They party, set couches and tires on fire, drink to excess, fall on the sidewalks and streets and many even attack other students in the drunkedness. And lots of underage drinking. The police have to keep them under control.

The police are called after home invasions, nuisance situations like neighbor problems, crime scenes of various types, fires, domestic violence situations and even go into the schools and talk to the kids early on about staying away from drugs and making good choices. Although in drug cases, it is obvious that they can't reach all because many of these kids are so deeply influenced by their environments and will do what they have to to survive in them.

So yes, police do serve and control. They have a tough job to do and I'm glad that communities have them. I do not like to see their pays slashed or any of them laid off due to budget cuts. Imagine our world without them there. There would be more mayhem for sure.

Imagine everyone taking the law into their own hands with no police. Here is an outlandish scenario if we were to take the law into our own hands with no police authority:

You go into the grocery store. Some little old lady bought the last bag of your favorite Dunkin Donuts coffee and Starkbucks java chip ice cream and won't give them up to you when you ask politely. So you just take out your Glock handgun and take the matter into your own hands. You administer the rule of law as you feel is the right way to deal with a most uncooperative and defiant lady. You shoot her between the eyes, step over her body and proceed to the checkout cashier, pay for your items and leave the store. Now this is what could happen if we didn't have any police to keep people under control and serve in the public's interst.

But police are like anyone else. You have those who are honest and uphold themselves and their occupation in high esteem and then you have others who are as crooked a dog's hindleg and hide behind their authority and use it in a dishonorable way that brings dishonor to themselves and the profession.

JMHO here!!

I honestly do not think it is public demand, it may have been initially but the folk in charge of these bodies have gone beyond their remit.

Case in point. Kids prevented from playing conkers under health and safety laws. The Idea of health and safety was fine it helped control the industrial problems and the like but now they are overstepping the bounds of sanity and as as for the PC mob ...

I will always say Baa Baa Black sheep and call it Christmas...

The powers we gave to the police under the Terrorist Act have been totally abused. I mean go back to 2009 Labour conferance and the used that power to arrest an OAP at the request of the Labour Party ???

As always JMO...

I just looked at your profile - with that body ...AND a uniform...heck you can have killed six people, you are still HOT

Take them off the streets for a month,then see what happens.