May Hammered Over Police Numbers

[Doggit]

My theory is that the vulnerable and disaffected are more likely to become ideal targets/candidates

Vulnerable not really, but dissafected, definitely; but when you encourage communities to retain their identity rather than integrate, you disproportionately encourage the elements that feel west is evil to flourish. The Manchester attack was against our way of life, but I suspect the London attack had more to do with just terrorism.

 

[^woody^]

Love the "Mayhammed" reference.

 

[securespark]

I do not believe that either of the two scenarios contained in your original question would make life either easier or harder for terrorists - in my view, it would make no difference to them.

It would make a difference to us (the general public) if the police numbers were different.

We would be safer (ie at less risk and better protected) if numbers were swelled.

We are less safe (ie at greater risk and less well protected) when numbers are fewer.

 

[rules&rulers]

dont think she has cut the amount of rozzers that protect herself.what a cowpat situation!

 

[Doggit]

Actually, May didn't cut an any police numbers; she cut the police budget, and they cut the number of police on the beat. But if you look at their accounts, they are sitting on reserves of £1.8bn that could be used for wages, but for some reason, they're banking it instead.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...rves-as-they-slash-thousands-of-officers.html

 

[^woody^]

It's a fantasy that we would be safer from muslim extremists.

The law still applies, and unless the laws are changed, no-one can be arrested tried or banged up until they have broken the law. Doubling the police won't alter this fact.

 

[^woody^]

dont think she has cut the amount of rozzers that protect herself.what a cow.

Don't be silly. It is the position that is protected, and rightly so, and not the person.

 

[^woody^]

It would make a difference to us (the general public) if the police numbers were different.

We would be safer (ie at less risk and better protected) if numbers were swelled.

We are less safe (ie at greater risk and less well protected) when numbers are fewer.

So why don't we just put the army on the street then if it's just about numbers?

 

[blightymam]

Don't be silly. It is the position that is protected, and rightly so, and not the person.

I think Maggie T had police outside her house until the day she died. But then she probably needed em!

 

[securespark]

Hasn't that already happened?

 

[Newboy]

It would make a difference to us (the general public) if the police numbers were different.

We would be safer (ie at less risk and better protected) if numbers were swelled.

We are less safe (ie at greater risk and less well protected) when numbers are fewer.

So on that basis, would the events of Saturday night been different if ten times more police had been on duty at the time of the mass murder?

 

[^woody^]

Hasn't that already happened?

For three days, yes.

You're asking for a permanent increase in security on the street. Then surely it can't matter of they wear green instead of blue. Every street corner, every public building, that would be nice and safe.

 

[^woody^]

So on that basis, would the events of Saturday night been different if ten times more police had been on duty at the time of the mass murder?

Yes because all these extra police will be stopping every van, lorry, Nissan just like in all the other two-bit countries that have masses of security patrolling the streets.

 

[securespark]

So on that basis, would the events of Saturday night been different if ten times more police had been on duty at the time of the mass murder?

Quite possibly, yes.

It took 8 minutes from the first emergency call to the deaths of the terrorists.

If there were more ARV's, the response time would be quicker, thus preventing further bloodshed.

I also talked about prevention: having lots more police investigating potential suspects would not bring benefit in the short term but could well reap rewards in the longer term. Don't forget the police have already foiled several terror plots recently. Think how much more they could do with more people on the job.

 

[Roger928]

Was it not a Labour government who led the UK into an unholy war in the Middle East provoking all what we see today ?

Yes bliar and his "save the world" fanatics.
The LWR brigade think the current wave of attacks have no connection...... bless