These days the police can, and almost routinely do...

2007-11-02T17:24:00.000+00:00

These days the police can, and almost routinely do, get away with murder. This is just another, albeit outrageous high-profile example. They KNOW, that given any possible doubt, they will be the beneficiaries. That knowledge affects their behaviour big-time. As someone who has been on the receiving end of ninja-suited, tooled up Met thugs, I have learned that coppers are dangerous. Under our NL commissars, they have morphed from accountable, community mandated upholders of reasonable laws into aggressive, armed, gung-ho enforcers of an oppressive State.

In their present incarnation they are far more threatening to ordinary people than the alleged terrorist plotters that provide the cover for both their behaviour and their ever-increasing powers. It's high time they were made strictly accountable again. But I for one won't hold my breath since, on current trends, things are likely to get a whole lot worse before they get better.

Panic and itchy trigger fingers spring to mind. Th...

2007-11-02T13:16:00.000+00:00

Panic and itchy trigger fingers spring to mind. Then the cover up adding insult to injury. This shooting was not an accident it was a deliberate act. Somebody must be held accountable.

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These days the police can, and almost routinely do...

Panic and itchy trigger fingers spring to mind. Th...