Tuesday 3 November 2009

Fighting Crime The Smart Way...

Forget all that 'gathering evidence' and 'prosecuting offenders' nonsense. Your modern-day cop scorns such old-fashioned ideas in favour of far more modern methods:
A street in a County Durham village has been renamed after police said it was named after a family allegedly involved in criminal activity.
Note the 'allegedly' there...

As the man who named the street after his wife said:
"I've got no criminal record at all.

"I was done for threats to cause criminal damage 15 years ago. That is wiped out. My wife has not even had a parking ticket.

"Where are my charges? If I am a criminal, why am I not in jail?
Is it me, or has the world gone totally, utterly, completely stark, staring bonkers?

6 comments:

TDK said...

It's an interesting development.

Progressives often support certain causes on theor way to power that they totally reverse once they get in. The Bolsheviks were anti capital punishment, they were on the side of societies outcasts. Of course once in power it became a criminal offence to be unemployed and only mad people could commit crime against the perfect society. You weren't a criminal, you were a sabateur.

Currently the PoMos love criminals because they are performing individual acts of rebellion against a wicked society. As we move closer to their ideal, they will change in the same way as the Bolsheviks.

On balance I'm premature. It's quite easy to see the naming of a street after an "excluded" person but not the long term reaction.

Anonymous said...

Wright?

Good grief.

If it had been called Tamms Street I would have understood.

(joke to be appreciated only by residents of NE England)

Sue said...

Don´t tell me they`re going to rename it "Allahs Way".

No, you are wrong, the World has not gone completely crazy (it´s quite sane here), it´s the UK and it´s army of Stasi Politicians and Police Forces!

Death to them All, that´s what I say!

Umbongo said...

If only Mr Wright was a "traveller" - the police would be happy to name every street in Durham after him, crime or no crime.

Anonymous said...

"Wright Street is a wrong Street and has been discreetly re-named Front Street (not to be confused with any Front of the National kind.)

Citizens may rest much easier in their beds knowing that we police will put to wright anything we do not like."

Superintendent D. Head - And don't ask if it is Dick, either.

JuliaM said...

"Progressives often support certain causes on theor way to power that they totally reverse once they get in. "

I suppose because, for them, power is all. And whatever you have to do to get it is A-OK with their followers...

"...it´s the UK and it´s army of Stasi Politicians and Police Forces!"

Some of Europe is fast catching up - witness the Italian school crucifix ban!

"Superintendent D. Head - And don't ask if it is Dick, either."

Heh!