Quote from: Kappacino on June 04, 2012, 06:43 pmPolice care about one thing, their careers.Therefore the amount of arrests/charges etc they have is typically all they care about. That's why they'll bullshit/manipulate you into incriminating yourself if they can get away with it. Sure, some of them will be in the job to help others.. but I can't see how they can arrest a drug user with a clear conscience if that is the case.. so I assume that most of them don't really give a shit.So even if a guy reading this, can't see any logical reason why he should be pursuing us as criminals... He will want to be the guy that brought down silk road, cause in the LE game that would be the shit to have on your resume, and could lead to better job prospects.Well said Kappacino,In both the US and the UK the introduction of performance related pay, arrest quotas and promotion based on the number of resolved cases was designed to improve the Police's performance.I can't speak for the effect that it has had on Policing overall but working in banking as I do I can say that the effect is the exact opposite of what is intended. Genuinely suspicious transactions e.g for large amounts of cash being paid in over the counter are reported as suspicious by our staff but are often dismissed by the Police as being unimportant as the client ostensibly works in a cas-centric industry e.g sales of Agricultural equipment for which people often pay cash. The reason for this is that dismissing a suspicious activity report counts as a resolved case, as on paper it says the investigating officer looked into the matter and found nothing suspicious, case closed, +1 brownie points.However in cases of people holding personal accounts i.e people who are easy to pull into the station and interview they will invariably run it up the flagpole and put huge amounts of pressure on a suspect about their financial dealings. This flies in the face of good AML techniques, common sense and frankly justice!While we're on the subject of unintended effects, I also think the establishment of independent tribunals to hear complaints against the Police has proved to be something of a two edged sword as well i.e if a Police officer arrests you on a spurious charge and finds no evidence of wrongdoing, it will hugely benefit their position if a complaint of wrongful arrest is made if they find something else you can be charged with. This sort of behaviour is so prolific where I live that the decision regarding whether to charge a person with a crime or not was taken out of the Police's hands nine years ago.V.