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By the very fact that the IPCC is involved, the familly must have complained about the cops.
I used to go to loads of "Mrs. Such and Such hasn't been seen for weeks."
The first thing to do is check with neighbours. They said she was in a home. So what should the cops have done? Smash the door in anyway? OK, so in this case, they would have found a body, but that's with hindsight which is always 20-20.
If she had been in a home and they put the door in, the familly would have claimed against the cops for the damage caused during entry.
Cops never win when it comes to grieving (although this familly don't appear to care enough to greave) relatives. It's easier to take it on the chin and carry on, rather than drag it out, usually through the press.

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By the very fact that the IPCC upheld the complaint then the complaint was justified. The IPCC blame the police.

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You have to expect stories like this, as the country went down the pan years ago.

It is a crazy country we live in.

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I want to know who started this culture of blame? ;)

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Yes! Think of the children!! ;)

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Who started it?It was the bloody Romans of course.

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America's blame & claim culture and the Lord Woolf reform of the Civil Justice system are the two massive factors that gave life to the blame culture.

Simple as that......:smt045 I wont bore you with any more detail, I had to write 6000 words on it back when I was at uni.

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Are you refering to the abolition of Crown immunity?That was one of the factors that spawned a whole legal industry for claiming against public bodies.

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I blame.... ;)

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hehe