Cause and effect – Civil Servants cause crime.
“In view of the fact that more serious violence has not reduced in the way that we would have wanted in recent years, and that these offences cause the most harm to individual victims and to society as a whole, our long-term strategy on violence focuses on seriousness.
“This includes homicides, serious wounding and serious sexual offences such as rape.
“Recorded crime statistics do indicate that despite recent falls, the levels of the most serious violence are higher than they were 10 years ago.”
Thus spake Sir David Normington in a 101 page briefing document.
Once again the powers that be demonstrate their familiarity with the need to propound, at length, upon what the average citizen has known for a long time – indeed, has been screaming at the authorities since he realised what was happening – solving minor crime to satisfy solution quotas is the inevitable consequence of setting the quotas in such a stupid and ill-considered way as to grant the same weight of criminality to a parking offence as to murder.
Just how many more stable doors are these award hungry, long term, inneffective civil servants going to find to close too late? Just how much longer are they going to be allowed to sit in their ivory towers, sheltered from the real world in which the rest of us live, in a state of oppulence that we can only imagine, drawing salaries FROM OUR HARD EARNED CASH and spending their time stating the bleeding obvious?
We have all seen a once proud and publicly appreciated police force reduced to a political football with some of our best officers, those who know the streets, leaving in sadness that stupid administrative requirements mean that they cannot do the job for which they volunteered and at which they were so good.
Stabbings are such a common occurence in the YUK that they hardly merit news space and yet the number of motoring offences being prosecuted rises inexorably.
There is massive unemployment in the YUK and yet the simple expedient of allowing the unemployed to police their home districts in return for a higher allowance (I daren’t say ‘wage’ because this would introduce so much ‘administration’ that the scheme would never get off the ground) is never even considered.
It’s about time that civilians and police worked together. It’s about time that (now I’m stating the bleeding obvious) our depleted and massively over paperworked police force was given some support from the general population in an organised manner.
Why do we not have huge numbers of ‘specials’ walking the streets? Most of the real people in the land realise that it is the lack of visible uniforms that creates a belief in the minds of cowardly gangs that they will get away with beating up old ladies and other less self-defense capable victims?
We have the manpower.
We are paying for that manpower to sit on its hands and rot rather than attempt to obtain work that will probably pay less than they draw in allowances.
We are destroying the will of that manpower to attempt to regain some self respect.
Voluntary neighbourhood watches have made huge improvements in many areas – and these use untrained and unpaid volunteers.
Why can’t we have a town watch using paid volunteers from the ranks of the unemployed?
One reason, and one reason only – the powers that be in the YUK are terrified that such a programme would lead to the erosion of the ‘civil’ rights of the criminal class. They have written so many assinine and insane laws that criminals have little to fear by way of just punishment that they do not realise that the average citizen could care less if a scumbag was not allowed to phone his mummy, his psychiatrist, his doctor, his lawyer, his veterinarian his priest or any other such worthy before receiving some cuffs (around his wrists, of course). The laws foster and encourage crime!
The streets of the YUK are less safe by the hour and we have only our over-paid, under-worked, under-achieving, cowardly administrators to blame.
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