The police be able to enforce law and order more efficiently if they'd just discuss what the person was doing wrong, the punishment where it's due, and what they can do to improve their behaviour, instead of ranting and raving at person.

The perfect example of role reversal just displayed it's self perfectly on an episode of road warriors (or some show like that ... I don't know, I don't really watch TV much, but these police shows usually end up coming on the channels I watched earlier) where they'd pulled over someone who had a non-unique license plate.

The man had already been stopped a week before and was informed of the problem by the police who stopped him, who told him that he would still be able to drive this vehicle.

Upon being pulled over by the policemen this episode was centering around, it seemed almost ridiculous - the person who was being stopped remained calm and well-formed, whereas the policeman was slowly getting more and more out-of-control; shouting, swearing, and giving abuse to the person. The policeman who pulled him over told him of the problem, told him that he actually had 14 days to fix the problem or he would recieve a fine, and gave him a fine. (despite it only being 7 days after the first stop and the stopee being unaware of any wrongdoing, as he was told otherwise by another police officer)

Through this, the police officer gradually swore and abused the stopee more and more - and at one point calling him "a stupid little fucking child", at which point I loudly swore at the television from across the room and through the remote at it :)

Throughout this, I'm amazed at how calm and suave the stopee has been - even trying to calm down the officer throughout this. I'm a fucking pacifist and even I would have had great difficulty in stopping myself from hitting the policeman.

At the end of it, it switched to the work-partner of the policeman who stopped the man, with him saying "I think he [the man that was stopped] hurt (policeman who I can't remember the name of)'s feelings. I got up (ala broken remote) and switched the channel because if I saw any more of this bollocks, I would be shouting loud enough for other people in other rooms and houses to hear and I soon have a broken TV.

Sorry if parts of this don't make sense - I was fairly angry when writing this entry.