TheDarkMan
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The Tesco supermarket chain started life as a London market stall in 1919. Today, it is a major international company employing over three hundred and fifty thousand people. It has now been announced that its frontline staff in UK stores are to be offered body cameras due to rising numbers of assaults on them. According to the Daily Mail, over two hundred Tesco employees are victims of serious assaults every month. And serious means? How about being attacked by a knife wielding thug as in this Sky News report?
At the end of this video, the journalist says the police don’t even bother to respond to 71% of serious retail crime. Why not? Well, they have far more serious matters on their plate. Last month, a 16 year old autistic girl was arrested in Leeds for committing a “hate crime” – saying a female police officer looked like a lesbian. As this outrage was committed in her own home, it is difficult to see how it could have been considered a public order offence.
Almost as bad is what happened in a less urban part of Yorkshire. At Hebden Bridge, population four and a half thousand, someone put up a sticker that read ‘Keep males out of women-only spaces’. An elderly woman took a photograph of this sticker, and that was enough to earn her a visit from the local plod. The sticker had been affixed to a “pride” poster, and this appears to have been the cause of this imaginary problem.
Difficult though it is to believe, this sort of nonsense has been happening the length and breadth of the nation because most police officers would rather surf Twitter all day looking for someone who has uttered a rude word than chase real criminals who might be armed and shoot back. Sir Mark Rowley was appointed Police Commissioner in September last year. He has stressed his commitment to improving the service to the public which includes fast tracking the dismissal of corrupt or unsuitable officers and clamping down on real crime. This has to include tackling retail theft because the madness we have seen in California and other blue states has already crossed the Atlantic, as we saw last month with those disgraceful scenes in London’s Oxford Street.
If law and order breaks down, we will see a rise in vigilantism or simply frustrated shopkeepers dealing with shoplifters and assailants in this fashion. Rest assured if and when that happens, it is the shopkeeper who will be arrested and dragged into court rather than the miscreants who are destroying his livelihood.
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As the great Mark Steyn commented everything in the UK is policed except actual crime.
“…tackling retail theft because the madness we have seen in California and other blue states has already crossed the Atlantic, as we saw last month with those disgraceful scenes in London’s Oxford Street.”
Their is a Common Denominator shared between those committing the retail theft in California and in London’s Oxford Street, but it would be a racist hate crime to notice that the vast majority of these feral looters share a Sub-Saharan African heritage.
This is were Doublespeak is deployed by the indoctrinated liberal halfwits— “…its not just the vulnerable minorities who have to steal to make ends meet, because of Institutional racism. White people also steal!
Yes, genetically provided sunscreen and lower level criminal activities appear to have a definite statistical correlation.
“a public order offence” aka a thought crime
face it, the UK is a fascistic police state – the “police” role is not to fight crime, they are the state’s goon squad, a gestapo force
When our governments do fight “crime” it is just to eliminate the competition.
The UK is a totalitarian police state, but to use the word “fascistic” is a misnomer.
Here is the original meaning of the word Fascist from the The Shortened Oxford Dictionary, published in 1933.
Fascist, 1921. [ad. It. fascista, f.fascio group.] one of a body of Italian nationalists organised under Benito Mussolini to oppose Bolshevism. Hence Fascism, their principles and organisation.
Yeah,worth pointing that out (every time).
Better if peoiple more often found a way to state what they mean and not use words like spells or weapons, COuld make room for more common sense.
totally agree… not as bad as its going to get, but well far on the way. THey seem to have fortgooten, and downplay the fact that they ar emeant ot be a LOCAL force, and ar epaid for out of locally raised taxes.
Prpbaly getting ‘fast-tracked ‘ graduate s in to the police force was th emost marked in bad effects on the police.
The police in Britain are now acting as the left’s woke enforcement agency, arresting vulnerable people for hurting an officer’s feelings or not taking seriously underaged white female rape victims because their attacker happened to be Asian.