MovieChat Forums > Line of Duty (2012) Discussion > Very Low Stakes

Very Low Stakes

posted 12 years ago by folawande
1 reply | jump to latest

I am an America but it is really surprising that what got internal affairs on Gates is "laddering"; the selective investigation of crimes that has a higher probability of being solved quickly or is likely to lead to a prosecution. This seems morel like a structural problem rather than the woefully criminal failing of Gates. In other words laddering is a problem caused by a political and social pressures to keep crime statistics down no matter how. Hell even the station chief was actively pressuring the internal affairs mole to ignore cases that can't be solved

Why didn't IA go after the station chief rather than Gates? Moreover, as it concerns the whiskey glass am I to assume that trash is never collected? Or that whiskey glasses over in Britain are unbreakale , unsmashable, or even unmeltable?

This show is enjoyable and fun to watch, but a lot of that must be credited to the direction rather than the acting or plot. This series reminds me of this parody "either way it seems like a lot of killing for a very small amount of money"

http://www.lolbucket.com/video/BAHUDXK4SKRD/SNL-A-Very-British-Movie-H Q-HD

[–] redban (6318) 3 months ago

I thought laddering was more about piling on extra charges when they arrest people . A lot of those charges, we assume, are just BS. They mention in one scene how a lot of the charges in Gates's station didn't result in conviction, and we see one of the female officers dishonestly gets one guy to confess that he did a whole slew of robberies. The goal is to pump up the station's arrest and detection stats .

Laddering is certaintly small potatoes compared to murder and perversion of justice, but overcharging people / getting people to confess to crimes they didn't do is a major offense