I didn’t realise I wasn’t already subscribed. You are probably right about this and most other stuff, & depressingly so. Policing has never necessarily been a job undertaken by our best and brightest. But that didn’t matter: the job was more doable, and the training vastly better, in the days of yore when police resided and were deployed locally, the Macpherson Inquiry hadn’t wrecked police priorities and norms of conduct, higher levels of trust meant that police exercised discretion rather than relying on a litany of inflexible and ideologically poisoned rules (many of which do not adequately suit the reality of policing on the ground), family collusion wasn’t suddenly a massive thing, and we didn’t have literal tribal warfare.
Most jobs are more dependent on the conscientiousness of the doer than mental or physical horsepower; basically, to do it well you have to understand what you’re there to do and care enough to do it. Most fuzz in Britain seem to fail on both counts (unless you take the view that they’re actually doing exactly what they’re supposed to do - I’m not that far down the rabbit hole yet).
When we add in the hyper-politicisation of the force (as described above and elsewhere), there’s no reason to expect proper policing.
That scene in Robocop 3, in which Murph has his CPU scrambled by too many ‘prime directives’, is one of the most prescient in cinema.
Basically then, we’re fucked! Isn’t this situation exactly what the Marxist Fabians want - the breakdown of societal cohesion? Surly this was always the end goal of their ‘long march’ through the institutions?
I didn’t realise I wasn’t already subscribed. You are probably right about this and most other stuff, & depressingly so. Policing has never necessarily been a job undertaken by our best and brightest. But that didn’t matter: the job was more doable, and the training vastly better, in the days of yore when police resided and were deployed locally, the Macpherson Inquiry hadn’t wrecked police priorities and norms of conduct, higher levels of trust meant that police exercised discretion rather than relying on a litany of inflexible and ideologically poisoned rules (many of which do not adequately suit the reality of policing on the ground), family collusion wasn’t suddenly a massive thing, and we didn’t have literal tribal warfare.
Most jobs are more dependent on the conscientiousness of the doer than mental or physical horsepower; basically, to do it well you have to understand what you’re there to do and care enough to do it. Most fuzz in Britain seem to fail on both counts (unless you take the view that they’re actually doing exactly what they’re supposed to do - I’m not that far down the rabbit hole yet).
When we add in the hyper-politicisation of the force (as described above and elsewhere), there’s no reason to expect proper policing.
That scene in Robocop 3, in which Murph has his CPU scrambled by too many ‘prime directives’, is one of the most prescient in cinema.
WTF is a Cultural Cohesion and Integration Commission? What complete moron thought that was a good idea?
Bit of an oxymoron given that it’s exactly the opposite they are achieving.
More 'thuggery'.
Basically then, we’re fucked! Isn’t this situation exactly what the Marxist Fabians want - the breakdown of societal cohesion? Surly this was always the end goal of their ‘long march’ through the institutions?