Saturday 3 May 2008

What Boris needs to do!!

Oh how naive you all are. Put more police on the street you say. Put conductors on buses. Give them radios so they can call police. Conductors would work if you go back to the old days. You know the violent drunk giving the conductor grief. The Driver would run round to the bus and whack the offending individual with a starting handle.
Oh dear these days the extra police would be obliged to arrest the driver, the violent drunk would go to hospital to be treated as a victim. If the police didn’t jump to his tune he would be able to make a complaint. The case is reviewed by the Crown Prosecution Service who make their judgement on the grounds of whether there is more than a 50% probability of a successful prosecution not whether justice would be served.
Police need to be granted the discretion of the old days, to turn round to the alleged victim and say “you had that coming mate” and not fear disciplinary action. Obviously there still needs some supervisory oversight to exercise common sense which these days appears to have evaporated. But oversight should be by the sergeants and inspectors not by a committee of rabid police hating axe grinders that these days leave police officer in dread of doing the job they joined to do.
Then there are there’s the problem of youths hanging around committing anti-social crimes. Ah but they’ve got nothing to do I hear them say. Well as my neighbour pointed out. After the war there was no youth facilities. But they didn’t go smashing up bus stop. They didn’t hang around on street corner drinking beer. Didn’t harass a mother into murdering her disabled daughter and kill herself. Didn’t throw stones at a pensioner’s house at all hours causing a heart attack. Didn’t return with their mates to commit GBH on workmen who intervene to protect children from firework lobbing yobs. No the clip round the ear prevented it from ever getting to that stage in the first place.
You pay for a fluorescent clad, professional, anti-racist, anti homophobic, socially representative, disinterested, tamed police service with the lives and health of the innocent who were just trying to live their lives.
Boris, unleash the dogs of justice. Suburbia will be safer in weeks; inner cities will take a little longer.

Mayoral Election

Goodbye Uncle Ken.
They way he rubbed shoulders with the trainee South American dictator C.H.A.V.ez inspired me to get out and vote against him.
The way his killer bendy buses block the road causing congestion and pollution.
The way eleven almost empty buses can queue up trying to turn right and ensuring that nobody goes anywhere.
The way the pedestrian crossing go to red when no one is about.
The way his pointless newspaper plonked onto the doorstep to tell us how he was wasting our hard earned cash.
How he imposed congestion charge on the residents on Kensington and Chelsea even though 70% didn't want.
Well if they were happy to put up with the alleged congestion and pollution on the very streets they lived on who was Ken Livingstone to decide otherwise.
Oh! perhaps it was because they didn't vote for him and because they were all taxed and legal it was easy for Ken to plunder their wallets.
All these surveillance based systems only work on legal tax paying law abiding citizens.
10% in the UK are uninsured. Get the police out stopping them and seize their cars.
Get those Disqualified drivers, well untaxed, MOT failures, Prohibitied, un-registered or foreign registered, provisional license holders. Seize their cars, that will reduce congestion and hit those who shouldn't be on the road in the first place instad of the already overburdened taxpayers.
As for Paddick 9%
That'll teach you.
If you'd learnt anything in your 30 years of policing London it should have been that they did it better 30 years ago and you policed over the declining years when police lost control.
Policing should be with discretion.
When Cannabis was arrestable class B you could deal with it as circumstances direct.
You could arrest people in the nicer parts of the Metropolis when people took the P'.
Or
You could suggest that they put it down the drain if you had bigger fish to fry in the inner cities.
Now as a petty offence, that is summonsable and just not worth the trouble, we end up with people walking down the high street puffing away on a joint on a Saturday afternoon.
Not the biggest crime but it is another thumbing of the nose at law and order.
It is one of those broken window in the arguement for Zero Tolerance.
But was Padick ever a real police officer long enough to appreciate this?
The problem with the left wing intelligentsia is that as you can't control discretion they believe that it leads to inconsistent outcomes which they see as unfair.
They construct intricate and complex rules to ensure that everyone is dealt with the same.
It just clogs everything up and results in even fewer people being dealt with appropriately and people who should never been dealt with going to prison, such as old age pensioners.
Here endeth the Lesson