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| Britain |
| Police regarded as a joke |
| 2008-02-07 |
| POLICE are now just a "minor irritant" to crime gangs, a top cop claimed yesterday. Leicestershire deputy chief constable David Lindley warned villains saw the law as "almost an irrelevance". He said a shortage of officers meant they could not "stick with" investigations. Mr Lindley said there was a shocking rise in the number of local gangs. He added: "We are not talking about a few kids squaring up to each other. These are people for whom violence is a part of their criminality." When government does not enforce the law, then crime rises. When crime rises too much, citizens form vigilante groups to do the job of government. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #3 Criminals may regard them as a minor irritant, but from posting here and elswhere, the general population regards them an one giant, useless PITA. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2008-02-07 18:37 |
| #2 When government does not enforce the law, then crime rises. When crime rises too much, citizens form vigilante groups to do the job of government. Which is why "government" goes after vigilantes with so much enthusiasm because they view the vigilantes as a direct threat to their power but not the criminals. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-02-07 12:42 |
| #1 So deputy chief constable Lindley...why is that? And what are you gonna do about it? Or are you even going to bother? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-02-07 12:05 |