I Feel Safer Already

We’re becoming a joke.

We’re becoming a joke.
It seems to me a bad idea for a nation’s police force to actively invite derision and a consequent loss of faith.

And yet, here we are.

What about side-eye glances? Those can be hurtful. Sarcasm, double entendre, and irony should be looked into. The UK is full of it. I blame Shakespeare.
The police will be so busy investigating non-crime that they will have no time to stop ignoring knife attacks,ramming of pedestrians, and gang rapes.

If one intended to destroy all faith in the government’s ability to protect the populace from bad guys, what would one do differently?

I’m thinking of moving to South Yorkshire. Apparently all crime there has ceased, forcing the police to find other ways of occupying their time.

I’m thinking of moving to South Yorkshire. Apparently all crime there has ceased, forcing the police to find other ways of occupying their time.
Hold that thought:

Violent crime has soared in South Yorkshire by a staggering 62 per cent in the last year, the highest rise in the country, according to new figures released by the Office for National Statistics… The force also saw a 46 per cent increase in robbery and a 58 per cent rise in domestic burglary – with an overall 34 per cent rise in the total number of crimes, excluding fraud, which was second from highest in the country.

Oh, and South Yorkshire’s police force has repeatedly been ranked by HMIC as one of the least satisfactory in the country, often cropping up in the bottom five.
But hey, at least they’re tackling all those insulting online comments.

Apparently, “hate incidents,” i.e., badmouthing on Twitter, “can feel like crimes.”

And so far as I can see, none of the officers involved in publicly mouthing this woo seem concerned by its implications, or by its general flatulence, or by the overwhelmingly negative feedback from the people they supposedly serve. If an “incident” isn’t a crime, even by the standards of “hate crime” legislation, then how will it “not be tolerated” by South Yorkshire Police?
I wonder, do police officers have any inkling of how much damage is being done to their standing among the public?

OT: Florida Man Greets Royal Navy.

I wonder, do police officers have any inkling of how much damage is being done to their standing among the public?
It is my earnest hope that the pictures of the bobbies on the beat, as in the ones above, gleefully carrying on are cherry picked exceptions, and that the rank and file know that this sort of idiocy is generated by a leadership that has sold out to the PC brigades* to secure promotions and other cushy jobs.
*(N.B. Yorkshire 5-0: that is just another observation from a ‘Murkan, not a thing like offensive or insulting comments, online, in person or in writing. Come on, you can’t tell me with a straight face that there wasn’t a more qualified cop than a former accountant who happened to check off a couple of “diversity” blocks to be commissioner of the Metro Police.)
@R. Sherman – VPN, you may be the eviler twin, but I’ll lead them a merry chase. Bwahahahahahaha.

It is my earnest hope that the pictures of the bobbies on the beat…
Memo to Self:
Self, please try to read more slowly to avoid seeing words like “bobbies,” i.e. British slang for “police officers,” akin to the U.S. “flatfoots,” as “boobies.”
Carry on.

If there’s one thing I hate, it’s hate!

I’m supposing a Society for the Appreciation of Charles Lynch is right out. And this despite the fact that he acquitted persons of color and racially disparaged White men.
Lynch was not accused of racist bias. He acquitted blacks accused of murder on three separate occasions. He was accused, however, of ethnic prejudice in his abuse of Welsh miners.

I have never had a Twitter account nor any desire to get on Twitter until just now. I now feel tempted to create an account for the explicit purpose of inviting the South Yorkshire Pudding Police to kiss my fat (well I have lost a few pounds this year but it’s still kinda fat) white Yank (is Yank offensive?) backside. Fortunately (or not) my innate laziness prevents me from doing a number of things that I really shouldn’t anyway. Though as the pounds come off I am feeling a little more energetic.
I kid there about Yank but for some reason this only recently occurred to me. If Jap is offensive and I have been told on occasion that Brit is offensive, if someone from Yorkshire (OK, South Yorkshire…geez) calls me a Yank, can they get arrested? Or at least reported? Apropos of nothing, who here is living in South Yorkshire? Hmmm…anyone remember where Sammichman lives? Asking for a friend, of course.

as much use as a chocolate tea pot.
Also, “about as much use as a chocolate fireguard.” And variations thereof.

‘Anarcho-tyranny’ is defined as the managerial state enforcing laws against the inoffensive and law-abiding, and refusing to enforce the law against the troublemakers and those who may fight back. No more perfect example exists than this. It is dismaying. It is coming to all of us everywhere.

I’m starting to see a lot of this. Wasn’t it the Essex police saying how they were watching…or was that to Tim after he was in a discussion with some feminist…
Maybe it’s because I read a lot here and over at Tim’s place that it seems to be happening a lot. I know I’m just an ignorant Yank (Septic?) but is this really becoming a trend in the UK or is it just a few police departments high on unicorn farts?
I’m wondering now if we have that sort of thing going on over here. It seems the civilian twitter mob seems to do ok with the lynchings of those guilty of Wrongthink(TM). Are they less successful at it in the UK? Why do the police feel the need to get involved?

the fatted oxen seem to have done the trick
apropos of nothing, while I was minoring in Classical Studies as an undergrad one of the periodic pagan/wiccan revivals was in full swing. I tweaked some of my more enthusiastic friends by loudly converting to the worship of the Olympian Twelve and trying mightily to out-pagan them as much as possible.
Great religion, by the way. All the proper obeisances rewquire copious amounts of brandy and it’s pretty much required by the gods that you throw a BBQ party every time you go out of town. And come back.

Hmmm. The spam filter was not too appeased, it seems.
At any rate, it appears that The Yorkshire Plod have more fodder upon which to crack down.

Thanks for the help and the oxen, David. I usually don’t leave the house without an ungulate or two, I know better than that.

Another godforsaken news site with auto-play video.
My apologies, it didn’t do it on mine.
Speaking of crime and punishment…
Great googlymoogly, a LGAT&SF group white washing the gulag system as “rehabilitory”, all the while ignoring that LBGLSMFTs would be thrown into “rehabilitation” for being LGBLT. There is woke and there is woke, and then there is just more ignorant than a retarded creosote post without the creosote.

Ideas literally kill, but gulags were all about the book clubs and theatre groups. As Orwell noted, one has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.

Insulting comments “will not be tolerated.”
What if I give a self-propelled pillar box the hairy eyeball?

Also, it sounds to me like the Yorkshire police are asking for a list of “probable cause” incidents by which to harass their preferred targets. They can’t take official action to get an official verdict, but the process is the punishment. Plus they enjoy it.

It’s a parody, Farnsworth, had to be, cuz I looked up her twitter account and … ohmigod, it’s not!