Do you know or have you spoken to any of the officers who help keep the biannual DSEI (or DPRTE, etc) arms fair open? Have you ever heard any officers expressing any worries about helping to keep the British arms trade running?

Do you have a rough idea how many undercover officers are currently deployed, and if any are currently active in anti-arms trade groups?

What are a couple of your most interesting/demonstrative anecdotes about them?

What about cops putting drugs they confiscate in their own pockets?

Pretty much and thanks! although I may change accounts after this just to be safe. The monitoring they have going on is pretty grand and there's little doubt that they're monitoring this place too considering the political nature of the site.

Knowing the nature of this site after a bit of browsing, A bit and also not very (if that makes any sense, but it will I'm sure). You get some anti-Muslim sentiments from some of the older officers but more and more are retiring and that culture's dying out within the service. With newer officers from about 2012-2016/7, they tend to be a bit more critical and hostile towards white people and a lot more apologetic and lenient with those from minority groups but a recent trend I have noticed is an increase in some far-right ideas surfacing in a few people and will no doubt spread despite efforts to cleanse the service of it. It also depends on the area, cities have those officers who are more critical of white people and other areas have seen a slight but significant rise of far-right thought (although hidden to be behind closed doors).

So they're pretty much exactly like the cops in the US everywhere else. I imagine that there's a racialized element to their policing as well, but I don't really research that sort of thing. Anyways, thanks for answering and welcome to raddle!

How racist are they behind closed doors?

I'd have to say that seeing what the officers are like and what so many of them believe and how they act. Every single one enters the police service thinking "I'm going to help people and improve the nation!" but they end up becoming power-hungry (to put it the best way I can). They think they're above every other person just because of what their job is and it really fucks up the relationship between the service and communities they police in many cases. They do public events to "improve relations" but they usually stick newer recruits (The ones who aren't yet horrible people) and those who can put on a good facade (Which is many of them from what I've learned). They really, really enjoy dishing out punishments to people, even for things that aren't that serious, they laugh when they have to/can take a vehicle from someone who needs it. It's not just a smile from a job well done and making the world a better place, no, It's joy in using their power and now the UK is on lockdown thanks to coronavirus, they are loving the extra powers that they have. There is so much more wrong but that's probably the most notable and off-putting for me.

I've spent a lot of years of my life around the police service and have worked with and for them in the past

What changed your mind?

http://lfbg75wjgi4nzdio.onion/f/lobby/104255/worked-in-china-for-a-few-years-ama

https://archive.fo/sMsxK

Seem to be experimenting with this technology. What have you experienced?

onion link

biggest culture gap? like what was the biggest difference between where you're from in europe and china.

How big is the rich/poor divide?

why

Where did you go in China?

What's the favorite food that you've eaten?

How much did you feel that the surveillance state is weighing down on it's citizens?

Are you in or have been to China?

No, no, I am not an attack comment, I mean, what do you want to know about China?

The whole point of an AMA is to hear opinions from somebody who has done or knows something that you don't. Keep your passive-agressive comments out of here.

What do you want to know about China? ?

Is Marxism alive in China?

What impressed you the most?

What was the best view you had?

What did you eat?

Thanks (:

I like these descriptions.