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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