Bag's Rants

Dangerous Streets.

Questions are being asked about if the streets are more dangerous for Police Officers. Read here.

Well Duh! It's more dangerous for everybody and partly because of Police Officers. I suspect that this will be another call for the regular arming of our police.

I really wonder when they will finally think about the root causes of this issue. The law and order that we were going to get fixed as we got tough on crime and on the causes of crime.

The part I find strange is that our leaders seem to think that it's dangerous for our police and they need to be armed but the people at the sharp end who are the ones the police are supposed to protect but only if the miscreant is armed and stays on site for enough time for a H&S check and the arrival of a significantly superior force.

Why is it that our leaders think it is OK for the general population to be unprotected while they spend so much of our money on protection for themselves. They have armed bodyguards, they have armed police on instant call yet we don't even get a response unless we say they are armed and even then they are not there to protect us, that is the secondary objective, they are there to contain the criminal.

So when we are under threat we have to wait, sometimes for hours, and yet when the police feel threatened, even by table legs, bullets fly. So much for our protectors. If they are all armed then they will be little different from the US police who seem to shoot people with the slightest provocation. Now I'm all for shooting the people threatening others with knives or guns but not everybody on the whim of the officer who, in the UK, seems to be immune from prosecution. That can't be right.

As a strange anomaly the only other things they seem to send the police out for are kids chalking on the pavement or something they can schedule like a visit to a shop selling golliwogs. Just don't understand that.

posted by Bag @ 11:27 pm