Comments on: Don't take photos of police cars http://www.thebadrash.com/2008/01/26/dont-take-photos-of-police-cars/ Barcelona & Catalonia blog covering politics, culture, society and more Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:56:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Tom http://www.thebadrash.com/2008/01/26/dont-take-photos-of-police-cars/#comment-1406 Tom Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:19:21 +0000 http://www.thebadrash.com/2008/01/26/dont-take-photos-of-police-cars/#comment-1406 Sarah - your story sounds bad and I think you should elaborate (withholding details, naturally). Don't if you don't want to, though. Spain - Catalonia - has always been different because this country was for many years run as a police state. So some suburban traffic warden with a police badge can still kick up a stink about sweet F.A. just because he has that badge. The same happens in the UK (where most police officers don't carry guns), because the UK too has for a long time been run as a police state (albeit on the quiet). While my experience with the police was about as petty as they come, I certainly left the police station subdued and with a cold sweat on my back. Some comments which were on this post previously (I had a database crash which deleted them) suggested that the police were probably justified in acting: after all, it's a police car, what did you expect etc etc... but that's not the country I want to live in. The police can take photos of me whenever they want... all a citizen (or an EU resident, for the time being) can ask is that they too be allowed to take photographs. Sarah – your story sounds bad and I think you should elaborate (withholding details, naturally). Don't if you don't want to, though.

Spain – Catalonia – has always been different because this country was for many years run as a police state. So some suburban traffic warden with a police badge can still kick up a stink about sweet F.A. just because he has that badge. The same happens in the UK (where most police officers don't carry guns), because the UK too has for a long time been run as a police state (albeit on the quiet).

While my experience with the police was about as petty as they come, I certainly left the police station subdued and with a cold sweat on my back.

Some comments which were on this post previously (I had a database crash which deleted them) suggested that the police were probably justified in acting: after all, it's a police car, what did you expect etc etc… but that's not the country I want to live in. The police can take photos of me whenever they want… all a citizen (or an EU resident, for the time being) can ask is that they too be allowed to take photographs.

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]]> By: Sarah http://www.thebadrash.com/2008/01/26/dont-take-photos-of-police-cars/#comment-1405 Sarah Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:04:12 +0000 http://www.thebadrash.com/2008/01/26/dont-take-photos-of-police-cars/#comment-1405 What you described just gave me the shivers. Until, oh, a fortnight ago, I always and ever considered any police officer to be a friend. After all, where I grew up, most police don't even carry guns. Then last week somebody I care very much about was arrested, questioned for almost 10 hours, and currently facing charges. All, for doing his job. Oviously, not going to elaborate on the internet. Every time now I see a police car, or anybody in uniform (Mosso, Urbana, especially Nacional) I feel afraid. I think it's fucking ridiculous that people who obey the law (mostly at least), who don't molest others, who actually try to make the world a better place, are persecuted and made to fear those are supposed to protect us. Is Spain really so Different, or it is just a fact of growing up and discovering the uglier side of life? I'm sorry you had that experience, it's unfair. What you described just gave me the shivers. Until, oh, a fortnight ago, I always and ever considered any police officer to be a friend. After all, where I grew up, most police don't even carry guns.
Then last week somebody I care very much about was arrested, questioned for almost 10 hours, and currently facing charges. All, for doing his job. Oviously, not going to elaborate on the internet.
Every time now I see a police car, or anybody in uniform (Mosso, Urbana, especially Nacional) I feel afraid.
I think it's fucking ridiculous that people who obey the law (mostly at least), who don't molest others, who actually try to make the world a better place, are persecuted and made to fear those are supposed to protect us. Is Spain really so Different, or it is just a fact of growing up and discovering the uglier side of life?
I'm sorry you had that experience, it's unfair.

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