The 'Voice of the Resistance' explains why people hate the police: it's because the police don't like them blowing up speed cameras, apparently.
At least in the old days it was because everyone was being fitted up!
A few of the things police did this year, apart from trying to catch libertarian pyrotechnician speed freaks:
They were shot dead, stabbed to death, drowned when bridges collapsed, were killed as they put out 'diversion' signs at accident scenes.
Those who weren't killed were routinely spat at in the face, threatened with guns and attacked by mobs for asking teenagers to pick up litter.
They were 'hailed a hero' as they rugby tackled muggers while on holiday in New York, saved the lives of unconscious babies in Northumbria, jumped into rivers to save drowning men and kung fu kicked armed robbers after stumbling across post office raids while off duty, having only popped out for a pint of milk.
They recovered the bodies of suicides, old people who'd been lying dead in a pool of their own goo for a month or two, carried the bodies of toddlers from smashed up cars and kicked down the doors of houses where fathers had shot their four-year-old daughters, their ex-girlfriends and themselves. Nice.
All that, plus telling you the time of day and where the nearest Argos is.
Here's to a better 2010.
