"I wish I had a gun, not a camera." - Mumbai Photographer

[Flow]

Sqrl said:

Incandescence said:

BringBackChrono said:
K guys, im an Indian, and i can vouch for the police's incompetence.
Mumbai police is good at nabbing thieves or pick pockets, but terrorists? Hell no.
These guys probably werent even trained enough to believe they could hit the terrorists even if they shot as the lower level patrol men dont undergo any kind of training( physical or fire-arms)
Indian police is worthless, trust me, this isnt the worst thing ive seen them do

 

Seconded. Word of advice from a friend: In India, you gotta know how to fend for your own ass, because it'll be hours before any viable help comes after you make a call, and even then, they may be unreliable. Just goes to show how much better the US police are and how ungrateful most US citizens are.

You might have an argument that we take it for granted, but to say we are ungrateful is a statement made from ignorance and it's pretty insulting as well.

To be honest, I'm not exactly sure what point you were trying to make =P Was it that Indian police are terrible all the time and therefore this is acceptable? That seems pretty ridiculous to me.

I'll take your word on it that the Indian police are miserable at doing their job, but then that makes this even worse, not better.  It means their cowardice goes beyond just freezing in a tough spot all the way to just generally being useless all the time. It sounds like you might even agree with that....and if so, why not just call this what it is instead of turning this into an issue about Americans...are you saying that only Americans have high standards/expectations for their policemen?  That's as silly as saying we are ungrateful for what they do, lots of peoples have high standards/expectations for their law enforcement officials.

Look I'm not begrudging 1 or 2 people freezing up, that's to be expected, but the entire lot of them?  Unless they had orders to stand down, it's patently ridiculous regardless of training, regardless of the AK-47's the bad guys were using, and regardless of any other excsuses that you want to toss out for them. 

Plain and simple, their behavior was a pathetic disgrace that cost innocent men, women, and children their lives.  The fact that anyone even wants to defend that is simply mindboggling to me.  And if you aren't trying to defend it then please just say that.

 

He isn't saying that Indian police are terrible all the time and therefore this is acceptable. He says that indian police is terrible therefore you've got to hold your own, because whining about how it's wrong and they should be good won't keep you alive.

I guess he is saying how ungrateful you U S and A citizens are because the image you built of the stereotypical cop is the "pig". Really makes me sad to see this because some of these "pigs" WILL put your life over their own's, still, everybody despises the police because of some bad apples in the basket.

 

Look, i'm not defending the act of hiding when you are a cop, i'm sort of defending those men that were there and can't be called police and i'm bashing the indian police system.

Those men knew they could face a dangerous situation, and they knew that when the day came they would hide. Being a cop doesn't make you a well-trained, brave guy. You can hold a badge and keep being a chicken, the blame is not the guys being afraid, is India hiring those bastards who is to blame. You can't expect someone like this to do something, you've got to put trained and willing people and pay them right. And put these guys who can't shoot anywhere else.

 

Snesboy said:

Flow said:
I bet that if he had a gun he would just hide =P, it's not like the dead policemen didn't dropped any guns.

That's what videogames have taught me. If someone drops a gun, pick it up and USE IT!

 

 

 

After i read what i wrote, the image of a policemen being shot and a gun surrounded by a red glow appearing on the ground and making a "beep" came to my head, and then a civilian walking over it, the gun dissapearing and another beep lol, just like gta iv.