""If I don't need to typecast one Irishman as like another - why should it be right for the policemen to typecast one person with a given characteristic as like another?

You're in a cleft stick Don.""

And you are chopping logic in a feeble attempt to avoid admitting that a cop must, as a matter of self preservation, treat every human being who confronts him as a potential threat to life and limb.

His experience instils in him that tendency because he has indeed met someone like that person, who WAS a threat.

If you are unable to comprehend that an apparently harmless person of any ethnicity, sexuality, colour, or faith can, in an instant become a killer, then I would suggest you need a police escort when you attend court.

Don T.