Thursday, August 17, 2006

Crash

You'd think the first few weeks would be death-by-PowerPoint, but as part of our lectures on race & diversity today we watched Crash. Good film indeed - one of those I'd always meant to watch but never got around to it. But movie-review aside; immensely important to what us newbies are embarking upon, and something that we've been discussing in groups for various follow-up sessions.

One of the greatest prejudices out there?

Exists against the police.

Seriously; think about it.

2 comments:

Inspector Monkfish said...

I wonder when that predjudice came about. I wonder whatever happened to the respected "bobby on the beat" ?

I suppose you have the double-edged problem... The standard one that applies to any group, whereby a few bad examples happen and then get applied to the whole group.
Combined with that, I guess there's a lot of people who are quite happy doing their thing, without the police interrupting them, thank you very much ;)

Soooo, err, good luck with all that ;)

Anonymous said...

Hmmm, is it a prejudice? Or mostly just resentment, because honestly, who likes the guy that's always busting you for doing bad things?

One often forgets the protective side of the police I guess?