r/unitedkingdom • u/RandomUsername1604 • 26d ago

Police officers say cannabis is effectively ‘decriminalised’ in the UK .

https://www.leafie.co.uk/news/police-cannabis-decriminalised-survey/
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u/Zealousideal_Day5001 26d ago

I'd be surprised if the general public rape as often as cops. For a start, 65% of police officers are male. Not even mentioning what kind of person might want to be a cop.

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u/After-Anybody9576 26d ago

To meet the per capita rate, we'd need to see something like 500 convictions of police officers per year. Despite the news reporting every single case which gives the impression of large numbers relatively speaking, it's nowhere near that (it's somewhere in the dozens at the very most).

Yes there's a male lean in the police, but equally officers ARE vetted, and offences of more or less every kind are typically repeated, and so weeding out past offenders makes a huge difference.

Also your final comment about "hat kind of person might want to be a cop" says a lot about your outlook, but perhaps the answer, by and large, is people who want a rewarding job enforcing the law? The numbers definitely don't back up the reddit narrative that it's largely predatory men seeking to rape as many women as possible.

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u/Zealousideal_Day5001 26d ago edited 26d ago

I'm sure cops are more likely to be assertive, confident, physically strong, aware of power dynamics, interested in being on the right side of them. Most people in an office are not confident or physically strong and are very poor at asserting themselves.

I think your 500 figure is bullshit too.  67,928 rapes recorded last year and 147,746 police officers in the UK. Only 0.2% of Brits are cops. That's about 100 rapes p/a for parity, if 100% of rapists were identified. (my maths are probably shit)

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u/After-Anybody9576 25d ago

I calculated for sexual offences generally not just rapes. And just to say, there's also nowhere near 100 police officer-committed rapes either.

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u/Zealousideal_Day5001 25d ago

we have no idea how many police officers rape someone in any given year just like we have no idea how many men rape someone in any given year. My figures are just the number of rapes recorded by the police, not the number of men convicted of rape.

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u/After-Anybody9576 25d ago

Fine- in so far as there isn't a huge national conspiracy concealing offences, police officers are vastly less likely to commit a sexual offence.