Watching the bleak and somewhat brutal Red Riding (C4, 9pm) tonight made me think about the police force and how their dubious 'Hit first, ask questions later' approach might not be such a bad thing after all. Watching these simian-like plods slap Andrew Garfield around with glee was at once disturbing and sobering. I actually started to feel 'afraid' of the law for the first time in ages which was a refreshing experience. If your life is as sad and hopeless as mine then you may have caught Nightwatch with Steve Scott (ITV1, 12:30am) at some point and watched with despair at police trying to deal with drunken behaviour using logic, reasoning, empathy and respect. Witnessing this awful human miscommunication is as uncomfortable as meeting a distant relative at a wake and having to listen politely to their bigoted views about race and society because you don't want to cause a scene. Sometimes I want the police of old to pull up in a clapped out Ford Granada - like time cop messiahs - twatting pissheads and manhandling nonces whilst eating cream horns and drinking bitter from pint glasses with the handles still on them.
Even 'da kids' aren't scared of the police anymore, such is the state of their law-enforcing impotence.
I realise that all of the above makes me sound like Richard Littlejohn or something and that in actuality this mind spillage is mainly an attempt at loving the idea that 'baddies' get pummeled to within an inch of their life but under the proviso that I or any other innocent party would never be wrongfully fingered out as a 'baddie' and thus be subjected to the resultant pummeling.
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