Offensive "Supercop"
Professional xenophobia rears its ugly head. British police have taken offence with Prime Minister David Cameron's decision to bring aboard for consultation an American "supercop" to advise his British counterparts how best to manage the disturbing culture of "feral" community youth who contribute nothing to society while having become accustomed to being served well by the British taxpayer.And who consider their entitlements to include running violently amok, committing arson, beating passersby or those who protest their predatory violence, placing innocent people in danger of being burned alive, and casually lifting whatever goods that strike their fancy from electronics shops and clothing stores that they happen to be destroying and looting at one and the same time.
America has had some experience coping with this type of social underclass of baleful societal drop-outs, delinquents who refuse to accept responsibility because it's all someone else's fault that they feel themselves ill served and unappreciated because they're cool and deserving. The success of the police in New York City served to inform that something could be achieved to rescue society.
But senior British police figures insist that they've conducted themselves handsomely in their reaction to the ongoing, consecutive-nights rioting and destruction of security in parts of London and other British cities. They do not agree with the countless citizens who feel they were abandoned to a marauding mob with no police presence to secure their safety.
Former New York police chief Bill Bratton has nothing to teach them; their response to the challenge was beyond reproach, and they are proud of the tactics they assumed and the rescue they mounted of embattled neighbourhoods. "There is anger, there is disappointment, a degree of incredulity as well", at the prime minister's decision.
"He needs to speak to us, not someone who lives 5,000 miles away." The Metropolitan Police Federation's spokesperson claimed: "Here we police by consent. ... America polices by force. We don't want to do that in this country." Police by consent? And were those who were viciously rampaging consenting to being politely policed?
The mobs expressed their contempt for both societal mores and the presence (and non-presence) of security. That kind of consent? The law-abiding small shopkeepers who decided their only recourse in the face of police abandonment was to protect themselves and their property in a gesture of despair over the situation ... that kind of consent?
Not reasonable, the explanation that "We are committed to the plan we have set out for police reform. We want to use the advice of people like Bill Bratton to really tackle some of the deep-seated social issues like gang culture." Worth a try, isn't it? Although gang culture is so deeply engrained in British society, like the culture of class and aversion to foreigners.
Britain judged to be number one on the top 10 country-list for violent crime; at 2.034 per 100,000 even higher in incidence than South Africa? Egad, it doth appear that the Sceptered Isle urgently requires advice and assistance.
Labels: Britain, Chaos, Conflict, Crime
posted by Pieface @ Monday, August 15, 2011
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