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While you are here, how about executing a random person in the London subway:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Jean_Charles_de_Me...

That was horrific and so deeply tragic. Without diminishing that I would say this kind of event is extremely exceptional and there's an enormous bar to a police officer even carrying a weapon in the UK and that was an Mi5 failure.

Person who authorized that was promoted into becoming the (now former) head of the metropolitan police btw.

There are cases of American police sleeping with women they are supposed to be arresting. Arguably, they should not be able to have sex with someone they have power over, but some locales have affirmed their option to do so.

Happens in the US as well: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/female-fbi-informant-sl...

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