TAKING OFFICERS OFF THE BEAT HAS FUELLED ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOUR
Police have staged a 30-year ‘retreat from the streets’, allowing the ‘disease’ of anti-social behaviour to blight Britain, a devastating report reveals today. Millions of acts of drunken loutishness and vandalism are going unreported as they have become ‘normalised’, it claims.
Chief Inspector of Constabulary Sir Denis O’Connor said the basic task of keeping the peace had been relegated to a ‘second-order consideration’ for officers who were obsessed with meeting targets for actual crimes. This had led to officers being pulled off the beat, handing control to yobs and allowing anti-social behaviour to ‘gather momentum’, he said. Sir Denis pointed to the rise of ‘happy slapping’ attacks – where yobs hit strangers, often filming it on a mobile phone – as evidence that random street violence had become commonplace and acceptable.
The ‘Stop the Rot’ report published by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary showed that last year, 3.5million incidents of anti-social behaviour were reported but this represents only one in four of the estimated real total, meaning an astonishing 14million acts of antisocial behaviour were carried out – that's one every two seconds. The landmark report warned that police forces are routinely ignoring thousands of repeat victims of harassment and thuggery. Forces often mark such calls as ‘low priority’ because they do not qualify as crimes. As a result, no action is taken. Worryingly, less than a third of forces use systems to identify both repeat victims whose lives have been made a misery by a string of incidents, and those such as the disabled who are particularly vulnerable.
Sir Denis said a ‘strategic error’ was made in the 1970s, (Fucking Labour!), that downgraded the importance of street patrols. From the late 1990s, (Fucking Labour again!), the relentless focus on crime statistics led to forces neglecting their core duty to keep the peace, he added. ‘The truth is that despite its high public profile in recent years, anti-social behaviour does not have the same status as “crime” for the police,’ he said. ‘The police record of accomplishment and failure has been expressed, increasingly strongly, in terms of crime statistics. ‘Meanwhile, the “non-qualifying” antisocial behaviour issue, and its variants, that signal lack of control on our streets, have grown and evolved in intensity and harm. Anti-social behaviour matters a lot to people but it doesn’t count in the formal system in the same way crime does.’
The report contains a series of victims’ accounts which Sir Denis described as ‘harrowing’. One unnamed man endured 400 incidents including stones being thrown at his wife. Despite making 200 reports to the police and the council, he said ‘no action’ had been taken. The report revealed a growing gap between what the public wanted, namely ‘boots on the ground’, and what the police were delivering, (No fucking shit!). Sir Denis added: ‘The public do not distinguish between anti-social behaviour and crime, for them it’s really a sliding scale of grief.’ He added: ‘Make no mistake. It requires feet on the street.’ (Errr...... yes, we know!)
So I wonder how much this statement of the bleedin' obvious cost to produce, then? Everyone I know has been saying the same thing for fucking years - it's hardly rocket science is it?!
Labour never wanted to spend money on something as necessary as good policing, they had other plans for it and besides, they were following a completely different agenda than anyone knew at the time.
"Labour....... tough on law-abiding citizens, tough on the causes of law-abiding citizens!"
That's what Tony B. Liar should have said - it would have been a lot more honest, the slimy cunt!
Labour turned the law on its head so that victims became criminals if they so much as tried to defend themselves and, nine times out of ten, the real criminals walked free to commit more and more crimes.
Labour wanted lawlessness and disorder on our streets, they wanted all the decent, law-abiding citizens cowering in fear while the real criminals were allowed to run riot, they even deliberately imported a crime wave from Eastern Europe and other parts of the world through uncontrolled immigration to help them achieve their goal.
The police became the enemy who could no longer be trusted to do the right thing. They have no-one to blame for lack of public trust but themselves and ACPO, who followed Labour's agenda to the letter.
I mean....... would you turn to the police for help these days?
I'M FUCKING SURE I WOULDN'T!
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22 comments:
Like you say Spidey, the report by <span>Chief Inspector of Constabulary Sir Denis O’Connor </span> is a statement of the bleedin' obvious, what a cunt.
Not only have the Police abandoned the street for the safety of their noddy cars and canteen in the process they have lost the support of middle England or even alienated it altogether.
What the fuckety fuck is it with the black shirts too!?!
Too fucking right, mate - and ffs, that little runt on the left looks like he should be doing anything else except trying to be a policeman! >:o
Call the police!? Round here we may as well have a direct line to CSI (cold case squad) as whatever the crime is the police are never there to deal with it!
We have been telling them for the last 30 years that boots on the ground is the only way, but we have been ignored completely by the policy makers and wanker politicians. However much this report cost I want our money back, with 30 years interest...
ACPO should be disbanded immediately and all its 'so called' profits handed over to the REAL police force, what right has a private company to make profits in this particular niche?, all the members are serving police officers and that means we pay them to have a monopoly which earns them money ...disgusting troughishness in the extreme it makes our MPs look clean by comparison!
WTF Spidey? Are we expected to believe that they now give a fuck? O:-) O:-) O:-) O:-) O:-) When they were getting lectured to by a Bilderberg attendee at their Common Purpose graduate seminar on "How to fuck the British over 101" thirty years ago I'll bet you not one of them squeeked a fart :-$ :-$ . So now we are supposed to pay attention as they regurgitate their latest Bilderberger attendee's spewings from their bang up to date Commom Purpose seminar "Instituting the Fascist State in UKPLC under left cover. 666" *DONT_KNOW* *DONT_KNOW* *DONT_KNOW* . What a crock!! They'll gun us down at the drop of a hat. I smell Freikorp. :-E :-E :-E :-E :-E >:o >:o >:o >:o
Talk about poacher turned gamekeeper! He's one of the shits who pushed these policies as hard as he was able.
Captain Ranty has a post in which a Notice of Understanding and Claim of Right is described in detail. The man gives Notice that he will avail of his right to carry arms, on the grounds that he has withdrawn his consent to be bound by Statute (which is an act of parliament given the force of law by consent). He also makes the point that a license (ie a firearms licencse) cannot be issued in order to allow an unlawful activity. He also makes reference to the 1689 act of settlement, part of our constitution, which specifically enshrines the right to bear arms.
That's the remedy, but it's risky enough in the shoot-to-kill police state. The point is, if people packed heat the yobs wouldn't dare do what they do now. We - the public - need guns. One guy made 200 complaints about stone-throwing louts attacking his wife - no police action followed. A few shots in the air, or even a glimpse of a firearm, and they'd have scarpered.
It sounds like our Chic<span><span>ago and Detroit to me. </span></span> :-P :-P :-P
It sounds like our Chic<span><span>ago and Detroit to me. </span></span> :-P :-P :-P
It sounds like our Chic<span><span>ago and Detroit to me. </span></span> :-P :-P :-P
I totally agree, Indy, that fucking ACPO is a law unto itself and there are never any police available when you need them, (and whatever they choose to call it, antisocial behaviour is real crime), but they can immediately muster a squad car and three officers when a couple of kids are playing with a football in a cul-de-sac!!!! >:o >:o >:o >:o >:o
It's like the bloke who spotted an intruder in his shed....... he called the police and was told they had no-one available to attend the scene - so he phoned them back a minute later and told the cops he had shot the intruder....... within two minutes, there were six squad cars and a helicopter round at his house. The cunt-in-charge said to the man, "I thought you said you'd shot him!", and the man replied, "I thought you said you had no-one available!" :-P :-D
CUNTS!!!! >:o >:o >:o >:o >:o >:o >:o >:o >:o >:o
Yeah, exactly, INCOMING!!!!!!!, we're supposed to believe that it's taken them thirty years to realise they were doing it right thirty-one years ago! This cunt, O'Conor expects us to believe that he's suddenly had a major revelation when he was one of the worst bastards who jumped on the CP bandwagon in the first place! >:o >:o >:o
I soppose we'll now be expected to be so grateful that we'll think the EUSSR is actually a good thing for Britain! No fucking way!!!!! >:o >:o >:o >:o >:o >:o >:o
<span>Yeah, exactly, INCOMING!!!!!!!, we're supposed to believe that it's taken them thirty years to realise they were doing it right thirty-one years ago! This cunt, O'Conor expects us to believe that he's suddenly had a major revelation when he was one of the worst bastards who jumped on the CP bandwagon in the first place! >:o >:o >:o
I suppose we'll now be expected to be so grateful that we'll think the EUSSR has reformed law and order and is actually a good thing for Britain! No fucking way!!!!! >:o >:o >:o >:o >:o >:o >:o </span>
That's just what it's like, Odie, it got very noticeable during Major's time as PM and the rot really set in as soon as Labour got control in 1997. >:o >:o >:o >:o >:o
They would certainly think twice about it - street crime levels would drop dramatically and if burglars thought they were going to get blown away when they entered someone's house illegally, they would back off as well. ;)
And for the Left-wingers who always pipe up and say that yobs and burglars will just carry guns, too........ they already do! >:o >:o >:o
Exactly, Cato, the two-faced twat! >:o
You got that right, CH. ;)
The solution seems obvious, and rather ironic
As 'crime' is now falling, and public opinion is increasingly turning toward anti-social behaviour, simply change the police targets to arresting misbehaving chavs
or get rid of targets...but that's not going to happen
Excellent Post, Spidey. You sure have found something that describes what's REALLY going on.
I'm surprised the admitted it.....that's the first step to fixing the Problem.
I sure you all over the pond can sort this out before it's too late. :*
Amen and Amen to that!
It would certainly make a change from their daredevil responses to the most heinous of crimes - playing football in the street and the terrible graffiti that children make with chalk while playing hopscotch on the pavements. Honestly, our police take their lives in their hands when they tackle these pre-pubescent criminals! =-O
It'll be a huge relief for them not to have to face "real crime" like that. ;)
Thanks, Bunni, I hope they really mean it this time but I have my usual cynical suspicions - strange how this report cropped up just before the police budget is due to be cut by 25%. ;)
Neither am I, Guest, I'll only believe it when I see it. *DONT_KNOW*
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