Policing? No one thinks big of you!

Miranda Devine nearly says "Policing? No one thinks big of you!" in her scathing attack on Pumped-up cops are stepping over the thin blue line. She concludes:

But the streets have been swarming with police all week, pumped up, and with nothing to do.

After Thursday's embarrassing security breach, when comedians from The Chaser managed to pass through checkpoints in a fake motorcade almost to the hotel where US President George Bush was staying, the police were even more aggro.

The stunt demonstrated that the security overkill in Sydney was just a big show, designed not to protect anyone from terrorists but to stymie protesters.

This is what happens when you appoint underwhelming neophytes, David Campbell as Police Minister and Andrew Scipione as Commissioner.

It's a sign of an emasculated, rudderless police force, with systemic small-man syndrome, acting like bullies in an attempt to cover up weakness, and chronic dysfunction.

Emphasis Mine

What raises her ire is the brutal treatment meted out to an accountant friend of hers. The police were more heavy handed with a meek white accountant than with those terrible Lebanese who devastated Sydney and left it a smoking ruin (not that anyone noticed - apparently we Syndeysiders are too blase about such things.)

Don't the police realise that they have to terrorise the non-white, non-rich, and non-sycophantic part of the population (aka non-people) and leave the real people unmolested to go about buying ice-cream. Really, what is the world coming to when the police start applying the law equally to all people (and non-people).