Not content with attacking the NHS as a 60 year mistake, Tory internet-sensation Daniel Hannan has now attacked police chiefs.
“People remember the way the coppers piled in when protesters objected to the hunting ban, yet stood by benignly when other protestors demanded that people who offended Islam be murdered. They note that middle-class people are persecuted for parking on the wrong place or carrying pen-knives, while scoundrels go unmolested. They observe that chief constables seem more interested in installing speed cameras than in recovering stolen goods.”
He says that the prescription is “to place constabularies under locally elected sheriffs. Then, by definition, there would be a realignment of police priorities and public opinion.”
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It was Government policy to have locally elected police chiefs too, until you buckled into lobbyist pressure
I suppose he demonstrates the advantage of the intervention system in the House of Commons so someone can be challenged as to the accuracy of their statements. His youtube in the European Parliament about Brown was high on the colander scale of arguments with lots of factual holes in them.
Not that I am in any way a fan of the government, but at least criticism should be based in truth rather than imagination.
Instead, why not improve policing, by helping them to deliver their purpose, through decentralisation of control.
Two important articles on policing are available at The Systems Thinking Review
Howard – The Systems Thinking Review
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