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It’s also disturbing that the police complains it is not given the means to combat knife crime but thinks it is a good use of their resource to police politenes
by cm2187 5y ago
It’s also disturbing that the police complains it is not given the means to combat knife crime but thinks it is a good use of their resource to police politeness on twitter.
- dazc 5y agoThe police like to chase easy targets and social media offers up lots of opportunities to prove how well they are doing their job. The only people who are scared of the police in the UK are middle class, normally law abiding citizens. One minor slip-up and they will be on you like a ton of bricks.
- _0ffh 5y agoYeah, they really like their soft targets, don't they? On the other hand, a gathering of young men who believably signal that they're totally down for a bit of street violence, now that's not such an attractive target to confront.
- tored 5y agoWhat is typical for organization like police is that they prioritize things that gets the best statistics in a spreadsheet, not the best result for society.
- soco 5y agoWhich only shows their activities are graded with wrong criteria. But as we all know from office life, picking valid criteria for performance ratings is an adventure by itself...
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoYes, if you ever have trouble getting them to take a problem seriously then log each recurrence separately and ask for a reference each time.
- hnlmorg 5y agoAre the police really motivated by this? Or are specific senior figures who are in they public eye and thus don’t want their “reputation” shamed on social media the real individuals pushing for these kinds of legislation? I’d wager most police officers couldn’t give a rats arse what someone posts online given the barrage of verbal abuse they likely get each day. They would much rather see the streets safer.