Violence, hatred and bile

Elected Police Commissioners are pointless.

by inspectorgadget

Discussion about the relative merits of elected crime commissioners, robust police tactics and direct entry police leaders might be interesting to many politicians and social commentators. It is also completely pointless in the face of the reality of modern British sentencing policy.

In the last two weeks in Ruraltown, we have seen three men with a total of 78 previous convictions, convicted again for theft, domestic violence and vehicle-crime. Two of these men took over a  dozen other offences with them to ‘clean the slate’.

All three had previous records for ‘offences against the courts and police’. All three had breached community sentences, been recalled whilst on licence or breached bail in the last two years.

This kind of behaviour is now entirely normal for most of the criminal underclass in every town in Britain.

None of these men received a single day’s custodial sentence.

All three were dealt with by way of ‘community sentence’. All three were happy to keep their freedom. One was arrested again within 24 hours for stealing cars. He didn’t even attempt to run away when patrols arrived.

So you see for us, all these high-minded strategic issues are pointless if the fundamentals are forgotten. Too much thought in sentencing is given to the offender. What about the public protection issues? Local neighbourhoods need some space from these people, even if it is only for a few months.

Continually releasing these people from Court sends an appalling message to communities. It tells them that they don’t matter.

I suspect that the real reason behind policing devolution is a desire to shift responsibility for crime and disorder away from government. In the context of the current complete lack of serious consequence for criminal behaviour, it really doesn’t matter who is in charge, where they come from or how they get here.

On the subject of complete farces; Dale Farm.

Did anyone else see the delicious irony of a group of people celebrating and taking advantage of a Judge’s decision when it went their way, only minutes earlier having said that the decisions of the previous ten years worth of Judges decision were not going to be followed because they didn’t go their way?

I have to take my hat off for the way the Irish Travellers have performed the most giant confidence trick of even their careers; managing to convince a whole section of society that they are a persecuted minority. I suspect that many millions of people in this country are waiting to see if there really is a kind of legal apartheid in Britain today; one rule for so-called minorities and another for the rest of us.

Once again, police officers will bear the brunt of the violence, hatred and bile. In this case, I think it will be worth it.