Police To Be or Not To Be Eau De Toilette, 125 ml

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Courtesy of the present Home Secretary, “hate marches” has joined the official vocabulary. It would appear that the legal system is now being required to police emotions. Of course it can be argued that it is not the emotion – the personal feelings – that are being turned into criminal offences, but the expression of them.

I grew up on shows like Adam-12 , which portrayed police as dispassionate enforcers of the law. Hollywood, in the sixties and seventies, was helping the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) manufacture a professional image for itself in the wake of the 1965 Watts riots. David Baddiel’s book, “Jews Don’t Count”, provided a disturbing account of the discrepancy between the treatment of anti-Semitic prejudice and discrimination against other minorities.

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But there is also a risk that the legal suppression of hateful language could be used to justify an even more extreme reaction from those who find that their verbal expressions are being suppressed. Prohibiting incitement can itself become, paradoxically, a form of incitement by justifying the rage of those who have suffered the prohibition. The West Midlands police and crime commissioner, Simon Foster, said he also disagreed with the inspectorate’s decision and the inspection was “in many respects a reflection of ‘what was’ rather than ‘what is”’. Take care, brothers and sisters. Take care of yourselves and each other. We have each other. The world isn't against us. We have purpose.

They can not ever be seen as the agents of any sitting government or to be pandering for approval from any political party. Their mistakes and occasional fatuities are a reflection of the national confusion about what it is now morally acceptable to say and to do.

The report, published on Friday, raised concerns that West Midlands Police is not effectively managing the risk posed to the public by registered sex offenders or managing the risk posed by online child abusers.