Comments on: Servants of the People http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/blog/2006/02/20/servants-of-the-people/ English, Rationalist and Liberal Conservative Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:46:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Gav http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/blog/2006/02/20/servants-of-the-people/#comment-3070 Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:13:07 +0000 http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/blog/2006/02/20/servants-of-the-people/#comment-3070 Oh, and drug dealing in Brighton is not the police's priority -- not all the time someone's driving slightly over 30mph on a road with railings and no pedestrians... If I am elected as a Councillor in May I will make sure I understand just what exactly the police do... Everyone knows where and when the police should be... And the police, I guess, know how to keep themselves out of trouble (target easy targets). Oh, and drug dealing in Brighton is not the police’s priority — not all the time someone’s driving slightly over 30mph on a road with railings and no pedestrians…

If I am elected as a Councillor in May I will make sure I understand just what exactly the police do… Everyone knows where and when the police should be… And the police, I guess, know how to keep themselves out of trouble (target easy targets).

]]> by: Gav http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/blog/2006/02/20/servants-of-the-people/#comment-3069 Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:37:59 +0000 http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/blog/2006/02/20/servants-of-the-people/#comment-3069 I was told by a source in the MoD that they were involved. Conspiracy theory's are not required. In fact the word "police" when used by the media can often mean many different things... But I continue to assert that I would not want the police who so maltreated Walter Wolfgang and Anne Evans to be totting weapons more dangerous than a tazer. I was told by a source in the MoD that they were involved. Conspiracy theory’s are not required. In fact the word “police” when used by the media can often mean many different things…

But I continue to assert that I would not want the police who so maltreated Walter Wolfgang and Anne Evans to be totting weapons more dangerous than a tazer.

]]> by: John King http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/blog/2006/02/20/servants-of-the-people/#comment-3067 Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:01:18 +0000 http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/blog/2006/02/20/servants-of-the-people/#comment-3067 As was mentioned on a TV program last night, Tony Blair said that the police should be given the powers they ask for. Surely it is for an elected government to decide what laws to impose, not the people paid to enforce those laws. As an aside; I saw lots of people dealing herion today in Brighton. But not one policeman/woman. As was mentioned on a TV program last night, Tony Blair said that the police should be given the powers they ask for. Surely it is for an elected government to decide what laws to impose, not the people paid to enforce those laws.

As an aside; I saw lots of people dealing herion today in Brighton. But not one policeman/woman.

]]> by: mark adams http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/blog/2006/02/20/servants-of-the-people/#comment-3064 Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:07:37 +0000 http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/blog/2006/02/20/servants-of-the-people/#comment-3064 Can I add a few things. More uneccassary laws = less time to protect us from serious crime "The innocent have nothing to fear" = "if you're innocent - prove it" Centralising police = weaker community ties = more crime and remove one: Armed police can be a good thing when they are trained to use restraint. I don't normally subscribe to conspiracy theories but I don't think the people that shot De Menezes were police - more likely they were military or at the very least, some secretive Home Office unit. Can I add a few things.

More uneccassary laws = less time to protect us from serious crime
“The innocent have nothing to fear” = “if you’re innocent - prove it”
Centralising police = weaker community ties = more crime

and remove one:

Armed police can be a good thing when they are trained to use restraint. I don’t normally subscribe to conspiracy theories but I don’t think the people that shot De Menezes were police - more likely they were military or at the very least, some secretive Home Office unit.

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