Old bill in doing their job shocker

I am not playing the devil's advocate at all, I genuinely disagree with (or perhaps misunderstand) your idea that you are meant to help the police.

I guess I was brought up to view the police in a different way to you then, and to see them as a force of good that is on my side (as a law abiding citizen). This sounds incredibly niaive and cheesy I know, but having never had a personal experience, or known anyone to have had an experience to change this, the ideal still exists in my mind. Sure, i read the papers and i see the police doing questionable things, but that is not all of the police, and we have the power to alter the way the police do their job as well (it is a long winded and frustrating process but the police remain accountable to us, although they are not often portrayed as this). I'm not saying the police are perfect, far from it, but nor are we. The police can only do their jobs with cooperation and support from the public.

I guess ultimately I should be pleased that they haven't let me down yet, but I have an unfortunately large amount of faith in people.