Why are people so down on the police?

I do have personal experiences of good policing, but I chose ones specifically around cycling from the forum as this is a cycling forum. So, the goalposts haven't shifted the cycling relationship is implicit.

I have thought about starting a 'good policing thread' or similar for people to share their experiences - good idea.

I believe that the examples I have provided do demonstrate that when there's good news about the police (cracking down on cycle theft etc.) there is very little positive feedback in comparison to the amount of whinging that goes on about the police generally here.

Please don't resort to personal insults, it's really not neccessary.

my god.

So, if your argument is why do people complain about the police more than praise them, couldn't you surmise that instead of them trying to be cool and jump on the bandwagon, there is a more negative experience surrounding them than positive, and that this reflects the trend of cyclists being at the low-end of police priorities?

Again, you dodge the fact that by asserting that people who complain about the police are 'trying to be cool' you are being 1: incredibly generalistic, 2: very condescending and 3: there's really no way of supporting that with any kind of empirical evidence, let alone much by way of direct reference to the forum, other than a few items that vaguely support your argument.

I think you have an incredibly blinkered viewpoint-both in relation to this thread and the way you try to negotiate some kind of credible argument and in relation to the wider world whereby if people complain about the police they are simply being immature and their opinion isn't valid. But then I'm probably offending your sensibilities by pointing out the massive gap in logic that exists in your initial and subsequent posts so I'll leave you be now.