The detectives : fighting organised crime

The sentences handed out were pitiful considering they'd tortured people. Thought the police were brave the appear on TV not sure I'd have done it bearing in mind the types of people they're dealing with.
 
The missus couldn’t watch it. Some seriously nasty people about, out in less than five years time :(
 
Not sure if anyone caught the first episode of this on bb2? Really disturbing documentary following the organised crime police unit in Manchester . Honestly I found it really unsettling and terrifying . Well worth a watch
It was a shocking eye opener for me. Those gang members had no sense of humanity and looked beyond redemption. The police do an incredible job dealing with them and getting them sentenced. That sense of barbarity and lack of remorse was on another level.
 
Not sure if anyone caught the first episode of this on bb2? Really disturbing documentary following the organised crime police unit in Manchester . Honestly I found it really unsettling and terrifying . Well worth a watch
I watched it earlier today having recorded it. I found the attitude of the main guy to be disgusting, and while I’m largely quite left leaning I was left having quite right wing thoughts about how we should deal with such people.

Absolute scum and I’d have locked all of them up and thrown the key away. There’s always someone bigger and nastier though so that guy will get put in his place in prison I’d think.
 
I watched it, I think people would be surprised how common kidnaps are. Almost exclusively rival criminals etc or people with a grudge against each other as opposed to children being snatched off the street etc. In somewhere like Teesside I’d estimate there would be something like 2-3 per month. Not often are the injuries as serious as those in the show however.
 
The sentences handed out were pitiful considering they'd tortured people. Thought the police were brave the appear on TV not sure I'd have done it bearing in mind the types of people they're dealing with.
Like the vast majority of people like that, they make threats and try to intimidate but very very rarely do they do anything. They’re just trying to have their moment because they realise they have absolutely no control over the situation or the people who they’re dealing with and they don’t like it.

When he was threatening them in custody he said something about one of them smiling at him. Most of the cops there wouldn’t have been intimidated by him and some would have secretly been hoping he did have a go.
 
I just think the stakes have been raised over recent years with more and more oversees criminal gangs getting a foothold, like the Albanians and Kurds, makes local gangs look small time, these foreign gangs can be totally ruthless with no respect for human life, life appears so cheap in some parts of the world.
 
Like the vast majority of people like that, they make threats and try to intimidate but very very rarely do they do anything. They’re just trying to have their moment because they realise they have absolutely no control over the situation or the people who they’re dealing with and they don’t like it.

When he was threatening them in custody he said something about one of them smiling at him. Most of the cops there wouldn’t have been intimidated by him and some would have secretly been hoping he did have a go.
Hardened police officers will be used to this type of behaviour, it is their bread and butter and I would have assumed they would have to undergo quite a bit of psychological testing before getting accepted into an organised crime unit, because of this type of behaviour and what they have to deal with.
 
Hardened police officers will be used to this type of behaviour, it is their bread and butter and I would have assumed they would have to undergo quite a bit of psychological testing before getting accepted into an organised crime unit, because of this type of behaviour and what they have to deal with.
Probably zero psychological testing. It sounds harsh but the officers probably didn’t lose too much sleep over the injuries to those victims, obviously you’d have sympathy for them but based on those victims being selected due to being relatively high level drug dealers it’d be fair to assume they’re probably fairly unsavoury characters themselves.

Ultimately the victims in those type of jobs aren’t too dissimilar to the perpetrators.

Working in a safeguarding type role whereby your bread and butter is dealing with sudden deaths of children and children who have been abused by their fathers / brothers etc is much more traumatic.
 
Probably zero psychological testing. It sounds harsh but the officers probably didn’t lose too much sleep over the injuries to those victims, obviously you’d have sympathy for them but based on those victims being selected due to being relatively high level drug dealers it’d be fair to assume they’re probably fairly unsavoury characters themselves.

Ultimately the victims in those type of jobs aren’t too dissimilar to the perpetrators.

Working in a safeguarding type role whereby your bread and butter is dealing with sudden deaths of children and children who have been abused by their fathers / brothers etc is much more traumatic.
I haven’t watched the programme yet but yes get your point, more harrowing tasks to deal with.
 
A good arguement for legalising controlled drugs?

I think the violence associated to organised crime seems to have escalated massively over the last 5 years or so; weapons, including firearms, seem to be far more commonly used, including across Teesside, which in itself is a particularly violent part of the country.
 
I watched it earlier today having recorded it. I found the attitude of the main guy to be disgusting, and while I’m largely quite left leaning I was left having quite right wing thoughts about how we should deal with such people.

Absolute scum and I’d have locked all of them up and thrown the key away. There’s always someone bigger and nastier though so that guy will get put in his place in prison I’d think.
He was incredibly intimidating wasn't he? And he knew how to use that intimidation to such powerful effect. I think he was about 27, he was a beast.

Imagine your kids or missus encountering a scumbag of that order whilst our and about? Awful thought
 
A good arguement for legalising controlled drugs?

I think the violence associated to organised crime seems to have escalated massively over the last 5 years or so; weapons, including firearms, seem to be far more commonly used, including across Teesside, which in itself is a particularly violent part of the country.
Possibly the most violent per capita. I know the fact that we're mostly from there means we all get a little defensve about it; but from a purely subjective crime perspective, Tesside really isn't a nice place at all. It's not safe and the people deserve better
 
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