Not that I have sympathy for plod, but they’re above lefties in the order of preference, even if they’re below Ebola.
AJ
October 22, 2009
October 17, 2009
October 14, 2009
1 Crime, 1 Detection. Stats recorded…
Via Hambush.. err Ambush Predator…
Morgan, 31, was arrested and taken from his home in handcuffs at the weekend after his family’s order with their local pizza parlour in Loughor, near Swansea, arrived minus two burgers.
He is due to make a first appearance at Swansea Magistrates’ Court, in south Wales, next Monday.
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A dispute is alleged to have started after an order of food with a local pizza parlour arrived without the, no doubt, tasty hamburgers.
Mr Morgan claims it was agreed the group should wait for the rest of the order, he told the South Wales Evening Post.
A dispute is alleged to have started with a delivery man who came to the house later, and £15 compensation was eventually paid out, he claims.
What follows remains unclear, however police visited the address later that evening and arrested Mr Morgan on suspicion of robbery.
He was taken to Swansea Central police station where he was questioned about the incident and held overnight.
A South Wales Police spokesman confirmed that a 31-year-old man was arrested on Saturday evening and has since been charged with causing criminal damage to food valued at £5.
See the title of the post and go ask any of the blogging coppers if I’m wrong.
Looking forward to hearing the outcome of this. If I had the day off, I’d go sit in the public gallery to hear the judge… lol.
AJ
September 29, 2009
Racism…
Even though I’m a lover of stereotypes, I know and accept all the arguments against racism on an intellectual level, as well as a social and professional level. Which is to say that in my dealings with the world, I’m colour blind.
So how is it, then, that I’d have put a grand on the fact that these animals are black?
And I’d have won my bet.
Utterly sickening and savage. Honestly, if that happened to you, or your wife, wouldn’t you decide that the metropolis was no longer for you?
And how does one scrutinise the undisputed fact that, in London, black men commit crime way out of proportion with their percentage of the population, without getting strung up for being a nigga-hata?
Some attempts here:
http://www.thelondondailynews.com/hypocrisy-surrounding-black-crime-london-p-687.html
http://mksviews.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/mostly-black-youth-responsible-for-knife-crime-in-london/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/the-truth-about-black-on-black-crime-444774.html
Much will be made of the experience that this poor woman endured. And though not to trivialise her ordeal, I suspect that little thought will be given to her bloke and what’s going through his mind. Apart from the sheer humiliation, what’s he thinking now? Does he still ‘want her’ now she’s been violated in this way? That’s a rational thought, but the guilt he’ll feel from that thought will be as overwhelming as that from being unable to protect the mother of his child, in his own home.
Sadly, and I doubt I’ll ever know the outcome but, I don’t think this couple will be together a year from now. This couple are both badly damaged now and it’ll be a long time before either of them comes close to being fixed, and that is a howling tragedy for them and their child.
In a way, I’d hope the assailants aren’t caught (by the law at least), because the inevitably paltry sentences, meaning they’ll be out and grinning while the victims are still emotional and psychological wrecks will be the ultimate slap in the face.
But I suppose I probably wouldn’t care, because I’d be in Broadmoor after an extraordinary string of violent and gruesome racist murders with a chainsaw, a machete, a mile of piano wire and a pair of bricks.
And Brown’s leading into the next election on a law and order ticket?
YOU DID THIS, BROWN
YOU DID THIS, BLAIR
YOU DID THIS, TREVOR PHILLIPS
YOU DID THIS, SIR WILLIAM MACPHERSON
YOU DID THIS, DAMILOLA TAYLOR’S STEPHEN LAWRENCE’S MOTHER
YOU DID THIS, POLLY TOYNBEE.
YOU DID THIS, SHARMI CHAKRABATI
YOU DID THIS, JACK STRAW
YOU DID THIS, HARRIET HARMAN
YOU DID THIS, DAVID BLUNKETT
YOU DID THIS, JACQUI SMITH
YOU DID THIS, BARONESS SCOTLAND
I HOPE YOU ALL GET YOUR LITERAL AND METAPHORICAL BACK DOORS KICKED IN BY SOME RAMPAGING BUNCH OF SAVAGES, YOU UNUTTERABLE CUNTS.
Finally, let me put a rhetorical question to you. If the Metropolitan Police are institutionally racist, why is it they’re completely unable to get on top of black crime? I mean, random unsanctioned dawn raids, falling down stairs, claiming he had a gun, then shooting him (think LA Confidential), falsified statements, witness intimidation and evidence suppression, anybody? If the police felt at liberty to act precisely as they wished regarding ethnics, surely they’d have an unbeatable advantage.
AJ
UPDATE: Actually, where I said Damilola Taylors mother, I actually meant Stephen Lawrence’s mother. Sorry.
UPDATE 2: I forgot Ken Livingstone, Lee Jasper and Sir Ian Blair. Cunts.
September 28, 2009
More of this, please…
And the story’s even good for a laugh…
Carry on…
Of course, I’m not interested in the £200 fine he’ll get and the letter of apology he’ll have to write to his victim. I’m interested in what effect all this will have his career. Especially since so many people these days are at risk of having their careers derailed by spurious infractions of New Labour laws, rather than for actually assaulting anyone. Yes, Attorney General Porridge Chops, I’m looking at you.
AJ
September 26, 2009
In other piss-boilers
Ambush Predator: Coppers wildly overstep their remit once again…
Today’s ‘WTF?!?’ Story…
South Yorkshire Police apparently have enough time on their hands to wander the streets, peeking in car windows and, if there are any items on display, doing this:
If any items are on show, the officer will record it, along with the car registration number, to help identify the car owner. Using the DVLA’s MOT database, they will then be able to find out who are the car’s insurers.
The forms will then be sent out to insurance companies – which will either lead to people’s premiums rocketing or their policies being cancelled.I’m speechless…
Letters from a Tory: Again, we must account for ourselves before the state, or we are non-persons liable to sanction…
Vetting scheme for adults gets even worse
From the Telegraph:
Adults who look after friends’ children on a regular basis are being forced to register with Ofsted under new legislation. They must complete a criminal record check, learn first aid, take a childcare course and even follow Labour’s “nappy curriculum” for under-fives. …It comes just weeks after it emerged that parents giving lifts to other children face prosecution if they fail to register with the Government’s vetting and barring scheme, a new anti-paedophile database. Dr Richard House, senior lecturer in psychotherapy at Roehampton University, and founder of the Open EYE campaign group, said: “In any ‘couldn’t-make-it-up’ league table, this latest Government incursion into family life surely has to come very near the top. It beggars belief that Ofsted is now telling parents that a private co-operative arrangement whereby friends choose to take care of each others’ children is against the law. It appears that the stealthy nationalisation of childcare is now proceeding at full throttle.”
More on that from the Faily Dail:
Mothers are banned from looking after each other’s children
Two working mothers have been banned from looking after each other’s toddlers because they are not registered childminders.
The close friends’ private arrangement had let them both return to part-time jobs at the same company.
However, a whistleblower reported them to the education watchdog Ofsted and it found their informal deal broke the law.
This was because little-known rules say friends cannot gain a ‘reward’ by looking after a child for more than two hours outside the child’s home without agreeing to a number of checks including one from the Criminal Records Bureau.
Although the mothers never paid each other, their job-sharing deal was judged to be a ‘reward’. Campaigners fear thousands of working families could be innocently breaking the rules by relying on close friends for informal childcare.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1216220/Mothers-banned-looking-children.html#ixzz0SDkJz8Qm
Boatang & Demetriou: Police say “anti-social behaviour’s not our problem”…
Crime and the ever-extending tentacles of the state
According to the Telegraph, a senior cop has popped up at the Inquest of the deaths of Fiona Pilkington and Francecca Hardwick (a mother and daughter who tragically killed themselves following a campaign of terror by scum bags) and said that anti-social behaviour has nothing to do with the police.
At the inquest into the pair’s deaths yesterday, Superintendent Steve Harrod, head of criminal justice at Leicestershire Police, acknowledged that the criminal justice system was set up to avoid sending juveniles to prison.
He said police officers were only allowed to issue warnings to young troublemakers unless their behaviour was judged to be serious."I’m not sure if people know but low-level anti-social behaviour is mainly the responsibility of the council"
Well, don’t shoot the messenger. What he is saying is disgusting, but it’s not particularly his fault and he is right. Because indeed, the terrorism of society and the low level crime that blights estates and communities up and down the country is no longer in the domain of the judiciary.
Because the state, along with everything else near it’s grasp, has snapped up and entwined the issue of juvenile delinquency and anti social crime and terror within its clammy tentacles.
Rantin Rab: Scottish Airport Police demand to see passports of English domestic travellers.
It appears that Strathclyde’s finest have decided to, or have been told to, check the passports of passengers arriving at Prestwick Airport.
Passengers on domestic flights, that is.
Just what business it is of the police to be checking passports is anyone’s guess. Checking the passports of international passengers is the job of the UKBA.
So why are they checking passports and what happens to those who refuse to play their stupid game? It’s not an offence to travel without a valid passport on a domestic flight.
In my opinion they powers that be are just testing our ‘compliance threshold’. If the sheeple happily play along with this, what’s next?
More on this in the Times:
English travellers to Scotland ‘need’ passports
English passengers making internal flights to Scottish airports are being asked to show their passports when they land, police have confirmed.
Officers are carrying out routine identity checks on domestic flights under terrorism legislation. This can mean forcing passengers to show passports or other photographic identification.
Those arriving on international flights are required to go through passport control, but domestic passengers are usually checked for photographic ID before boarding their plane.
The checks came to light after shadow home secretary Chris Grayling was asked to produce his documents when he arrived at Glasgow Prestwick airport on an internal flight.
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The Terrorism Act 2000 gives police forces the power to stop anyone for identification checks, which can include showing a passport. Strathclyde Police, which covers Prestwick, 30 miles south west of the city centre, said its officers use the legislation “proportionately”.
A force spokesman said: “’Police officers, similar to other Border and Law Enforcement Agencies, operate at UK Air and Sea Ports in furtherance of their role of protecting our communities.
"As part of their duties, police require to establish the identity of persons present at or transiting through a port and, in recognition of this, legislation is provided for that purpose.
Well then.. the next time my firm want me to travel north of the border, I’m going to tell them to go fuck themselves.
Time to go shoot golf balls at the cat.
I fucking hate what these cunts have done to my country, my life, my liberty and my sanity.
AJ
August 26, 2009
August 16, 2009
Tom Harris: Funny Man
Lest the comment I’ve just posted on his blog doesn’t get past moderation, here it is:
UPDATE: Terribly bad form of me not to tip my hat toward Leg-iron at Old Holborn’s place.
UPDATE 2: I see Obo is poking him. Nice work, Mr The Clown :-)
UPDATE 3: Lol.. it doesn’t matter if he approves the comment… this post has left a pingback. :o)
July 13, 2009
Oh please come to my house…
Via Ambush Predator…
Police community support officers have startled homeowners by wandering uninvited into their properties during a burglary crackdown.
If doors were left open, the civilian officers – nicknamed ‘Blunkett’s Bobbies’ after the Home Secretary who created them – walked straight into homes.
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One resident, who came face to face with a PCSO in her home, said she was ‘totally shocked’ when she met the officer in her kitchen.
Enter my property uninvited, you plastic pig cunts, and you’ll experience my burglary prevention strategy first hand.
The business end of a 9 iron, still bearing blood from the last attempt.
Honestly. We’re paying for this.
AJ
June 22, 2009
Piggy bastards again…
It’s a tough call between hippies and lentilists or coppers, but it’s one I have had to make.
Mmmmmmm lentils.
AJ
June 17, 2009
Errr… what the fuck, you piggy cunts?
See what I mean about plod? What a bunch of fascist bastards.
Members of the public are being stopped and searched under controversial anti-terror laws to racially balance the overall official figures, the Government’s watchdog over the issue said today.
Lord Carlile of Berriew, QC, also said people are being stopped by police when there is not the slightest possibility of the individual being a terrorist.
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Lord Carlile said: “I repeat my mantra that terrorism related powers should be used only for terrorism related purposes; otherwise their credibility is severely damaged. The damage to community relations if they are used incorrectly can be considerable.”
Yeah – like arresting ancient trots under terrorism laws for barracking Jack Straw at the Labour Party Annual Goosestep Gala.
And, to be fair,
I didn’t know we had a big problem with black terrorists. I thought they were all too busy selling each other gash cocaine and then stabbing each other with sharpened afro-combs for showing disrespec.
Anyway. Coppers. No sympathy. No co-operation. No support. No comment.
AJ
More on the Patrick Foster & Nightjack affair…
As predicted, there has been a shitstorm on the blogovoid about privacy and the motives of the Times reporter.
I don’t buy in to much of the argument, though. I don’t, for example, buy the argument of hypocrisy of The Times by them protecting anonymous sources, while outing Nightjack. Why? Because The Times is a commercial publication, which one can buy or not buy. They are not a public service. Almost without exception, you know who has written an article (or at least the by-line holder) and anonymous sources are not typically enriched unless we’re talking about tawdry kiss & tell type shit, which I do object to.
As a preface to further comments, I’ll happily admit that, having been around the block, I have no time for coppers – good or bad, bent or straight, male, female, black, white, yellow or blue.
IMO, the combination of the mindset required to become a copper and what the job turns you into once you’re doing it means that however genuine, caring, decent and honest a person is at the start of the process, by the time they’re a full blown plod, they are all cunts who see everyone as criminals and as a matter of survival adopt a gallows humour that leads them to hold the law-abiding public in contempt. And that’s before we look at the rates of alcoholism, divorce and long term sickness, and the inevitable consequences those travails must have on officers and how they conduct themselves.
You can’t trust them & you should never talk to them.
Anyway, I don’t care that Mr Jack blogged as a serving copper, in the context that his mission was to write something that is cathartic and entertaining, while lifting the lid on life in the force and on the frontline of scumbaggery.
What I do care about are these things:
1) He enriched himself a Police charity by breaking the terms of the employment we pay him for, by publishing books.
2) He won a minor literary prize on the back of this. Anonymously. What, precisely, was he expecting to happen next?
3) I am of the opinion that he won his prize under false pretences and by foul means. He should be stripped of it, if he hasn’t the honour to hand it back.
So, while I may concede that his identity was disclosed by the Times for less than honourable reasons, I don’t have any sympathy whatsoever.
AJ
Updated as I’ve bothered to start digesting facts. Meh. I see he’s giving his chief constable’s helmet a good polishing in the editorials of today’s Times. I’ve put a petri dish of sympathy spores in the airing cupboard. We’ll see how they get on overnight.
June 16, 2009
Police blogger ‘Nightjack’ unmasked… Orwell Prize in jeopardy???
The Times defeated an attempt by the blogger to obtain an injunction, preventing him being named.
If you’ll read on, you’ll notice that he has been disciplined by his force for disclosing privileged and sensitive information that could be traced back to cases he has worked on.
Now, there’ll be a shitstorm about the rights of bloggers like myself to remain anonymous, and rightly so.
But how long will it take people to realise that, when Nightjack won the Orwell prize for his blog, he did so under dubious circumstances? Effectively, in winning the prize by abusing a position of power and privilege, he cheated.
Once a copper, always a copper, I say.
Still, he beat Tom Harris, so I maybe prepared to cut the guy a break.
AJ
June 15, 2009
Police and tasers revisited….
I’ve blethered at length about coppers with tasers before.
http://aljahom.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/police-and-tasers-update/
In that haystack, you will learn that Jacqui Smith had a plan to deploy tasers to 10000 officers.
Have a butcher’s at this:
Watch the video…
.. and remember never to trust these power-crazed craven thugs.
AJ
May 26, 2009
May 4, 2009
Car Crash Policing…
Officers admitted causing 3,357 crashes last year – an average of more than 64 a week – many of which were caused by basic driving errors.
Accidents were caused by failing to stop at junctions, doing U-turns without looking, taking bends too quickly and failing to use mirrors when reversing.
I suspect the main reasons for this are that most coppers are now:
- 4ft tall and can’t see over the steering wheel
- About 8 years old.
- Of an ethnicity or culture that, empirical evidence suggests, renders them congenitally unable to pilot a car in a straight line at a decent speed.
Or I may be barking up the wrong tree. They may just be thick arrogant cunts, like most of the public they so cherishingly ‘protect’.
AJ
April 15, 2009
More police thuggery from the G20 protests…
This really is quite remarkable… the alarming thing is this copper doesn’t seem ‘out of control’ – he seems remarkably composed in the way the slaps that woman around then hits her with a baton.
Mummylonglegs doesn’t share my opinion that anyone who is, or wants to be, a copper is – de facto – fundamentally degenerate, just like anyone else who aspires to a position of state power.
AJ
April 9, 2009
Schweinenfreude…
Ahahahhaaaaaaaahaaaaaaahaaaaa.
Police chief,
Bob QuickPC Tony Stamp, resigns from the Met over terror blunder
Fuck off, Bob. Quick. Lovely lovely. Still, he’s got a fat pension to keep himself in pork pies, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he picked up a nice consultancy role with ACPO Ltd.
AJ
April 8, 2009
A higher brow of commentary…
I like to read Chris Dillow’s Stumbling and Mumbling blog, because it’s rather more intellectual than my normal feed, and I always learn something – a financial, statistical or socio-economic concept for example – today’s buzzy-word is ‘availability heuristic’. Wikkid. The other thing I like is he always manages to slap someone as an aside to the main thrust – in this case, a spoiled middle-class bint of the sort I spent my late teens around. Have that, bubble-wrap bird.
Chris comments on the current implodligo, as below.
As a rule, I hate the practice of drawing general inferences from high-profile individual cases. We should guard against the misapplication of the availability heuristic.
In the case of the attack upon Ian Tomlinson, however, we should draw such an inference – because this was not an isolated instance.
Let’s run some figures*. Since 2000 there have been 361 deaths in police custody, an average of 40 a year – though in fairness the number seems to be falling. During this time there have been an average of just under 1.4 million arrests each year (big pdf).
If we assume each arrested person spends 24 hours in custody, this implies a daily death rate of just under 3 per 100,000. Now, in 2007 the death rate for men aged 20-24 was 65 per 100,000 per year (big pdf), or 0.18 per 100,000 per day.
Deaths in custody, then, seem to be around 16 times the norm. Is this really entirely due to the police being likely to arrest people who have overdosed on drugs?
Let’s be realistic. There is such a thing as police brutality; as Shuggy says, the only people shocked by that video – and this means you Laurie – are those who have spent their lives having tea with mother. And the fact that this goes unchecked only encourages it.
But then the mask slips – and it’s because I agree with him that I find the Police to be such a peril to liberty:
Indeed, in a sense what‘s surprising is just how few such incidents there are; if I thought – as that copper did – that I could hit someone and get away with it, my knuckles would be permanently bleeding.
I think I’d go for the extendable baton or the Taser, but there you go Chris. Anyway….
So, I think we should draw inferences.
It would be easy to say that one of these is that the police must be much more tightly reined in than they are, and must not be given more powers. There is, though, little hope of this. The political class is unlikely to weaken its own army, especially when the victims of its aggression tend, generally, to be the sort of people it doesn‘t care about – protestors, ordinary workers, the mentally ill.
Nor should we expect the media as a whole to act as a constraint. The BBC and Evening Trash have been deplorable here. But this is only to be expected. The police are a great source of stories for the MSM – and you don’t bite the hand that feeds.
Instead, what we’re seeing is what any Marxist has known all along – the police, politicians and much of the media are all on the same side. Which is not the side of liberty or justice.
And, for the lame-brained (non-Marxist) left there’s another lesson – the state is not your friend.
Amen, that man.
AJ
There’s ill feeling towards plod stirring in the papers…
The Guardian had the video of the guy being beaten and shoved to the ground – who then collapsed and died. The mood of condemnation is spreading across the MSM and the blogojobbie….
Telegraph: G20 death: We need a police force not brute force
The death of Ian Tomlinson has shocked us not because of one officer’s violence, but because the institution itself lied to the public, says Philip Johnston.
Times: Comment: the whole barrel was rotten last week at G20 protest
Last week, after spending seven hours as a journalist locked into an increasingly small cordon, after watching police officers charge with truncheons and shields and after watching peaceful protesters retreat bloodied, I wrote about my experience.
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After the article was published, Sara McAlpine – who said that she had happened to pass a demonstration the following day to mark Mr Tomlinson’s death – sent me an e-mail. There is no way to corroborate her account, except that it tallies with so many others. “This is what I witnessed myself in 15 minutes standing near the Bank of England,” she said. “The police split the protest into two groups on two cornering streets, not letting anyone leave. Suddenly, a policeman threw a punch at the face of a male, who raised his right arm to try and block the punch (no retaliation, merely a block). Immediately, three officers threw him up against the scaffolding, knocked him to the ground and beat him with their batons. They then carried him horizontally away.
“A photographer on the spectator side of the cordon tried to capture it. An officer ran over and grabbed him, trying to force him into the cordon. He escaped but the officer came after him and squared up to him (who was right next to me at this point) shouting, ‘Do you want a piece of this, huh, do you want to come and get some?’ He was then called back by another officer.
Mr Eugenides: The death of Ian Tomlinson: a libertarian blogger reacts (UPDATED)
I think that some of us on "the right" take the view, usually subconsciously but sometimes explicitly, that our most cherished civil liberty is simply the right to be left alone. What tends to vex us most is those instances where government tries to impinge on that right – through a national ID scheme, for example, or punitive taxation, or petty officialdom.
Because "protest" has traditionally been a tool of the left – the average Tory does not go to many demos, no matter what government is in power – it is something that many on the right simply don’t and can’t identify with. One of the most powerful factors that drives empathy for those whose civil liberties are being curtailed – "there, but for the grace of God, go I" – often doesn’t apply to the same extent in these cases, because at some level there is an unspoken assumption that if you go to an anti-capitalism protest, given the violence we have seen over the last decade and more in cities from Genoa to Seattle, you are consciously putting yourself in harm’s way and have to take your chances accordingly. Look at some of the fuckwits you are allying yourself with, however loosely. When you’re standing next to a guy who’s throwing shit at a fan, you should not be surprised if you end up covered in shit.
James shuddered when he saw the video of Ian Tomlinson being flung to the ground because, he thought, "that could have been me". I was angry when I saw it, because it was clearly an abuse of police power; but I wasn’t scared, because at no point while watching did it occur to me that it might have been me. Feeling the rough end of a policeman’s baton is something that happens to other people, not to us.
Which is something I alluded to previously.
It seems absurd that those of us who consider road protesters, animal rights activists and other such lentil-mongers to be utter scum need to worry about this, but in light of recent events, and considering
NewLabour’s continuing drive to criminalise every one of us, it seems necessary and worthwhile.
And the IPCC have demanded a second post-mortem of the victim now:
IPCC orders new post-mortem on G20 victim Ian Tomlinson
The Independent Police Complaints Commission is to carry out a second post-mortem on the body of Ian Tomlinson, the newspaper vendor who died after collapsing at last week’s anti-capitalist protests in London.
The IPCC also announced tonight that its own investigators are to take over the inquiry into Mr Tomlinson’s death after video footage emerged that showed him being struck by an officer and pushed roughly to the floor shortly before his death.
The organisation had previously been directing an investigation by City of London Police but the video footage, and testimony from witnesses at the scene, appeared to call the official police version of events into question.
A freelance photographer at the scene, Anna Branthwaite, has already told how she saw Mr Tomlinson being hit by a police officer – and said today that incident happened a few minutes before the one captured on video.
Maybe it’ll now be discovered that the Met are institutionally violent fascist thugs. It couldn’t be… could it?
AJ
