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Pirate Bay Raid Investigation Finished
A Pirate writes "The Swedish Ombudsmen of Justice (JO) has finished the investigation of the Pirate Bay raid where close to 200 servers were confiscated. Just a fragment of these were actually Pirate Bay's and this led to both the police and prosecutor being charged with official misconduct, but the judges dropped the cases. In the report published by the JO he concludes that the judges were right, but there is also some very interesting information about how the MPA, IFPI and the American embassy tried to push the Swedish Minister of Justice and Secretary of State into influencing the police and the prosecutor to act upon The Pirate Bay."
(Score 1: unjustified blanket statements)
Who exactly is "the police and prosecutor"? Is this the same entity that arrested you?
The one example you backed up, for one specific case, actually disagrees with your statement that "the police" aren't required to obey the law. He was charged with manslaughter. Hooray, the system works!
I might agree with what you say, I might not. The point is, there needs to be evidence that supports your general conclusions. To support these general conclusions, evidence does not include examples of single events that support it. Supporting a claim that police in general don't have hard enough punishment might include a study concluding that police convicted in crimes while on the job are given 50% less jail time than others convicted of similar crimes (not actually true, I just made that up).