Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
from the guardian
if any disinterested observer were to look at the police over the last number of years and seek to understand why the police were held in such disdain and contempt, they'd lay the blame at the feet of police officers of all ranks who have shown police forces across the country to have been riddled with perverts, liars, rapists and the occasional murderer. vetting had been ignored or put to one side. the public inquiry into spycops, too, shows the contempt the police have for the public.
and now to add insult to injury, cooper makes out that this is the force needed to restore order to the streets.
the lack of legitimacy and authority the police enjoy is their own fault. it's not just the 'rotten apples' committing crimes, it's the entire establishment - the sort of people who would order an attack on a vigil for woman murdered by a cop, for example. even out of the sorry rabble who make up the labour cabinet, cooper's an intellectual and moral midget.
if any disinterested observer were to look at the police over the last number of years and seek to understand why the police were held in such disdain and contempt, they'd lay the blame at the feet of police officers of all ranks who have shown police forces across the country to have been riddled with perverts, liars, rapists and the occasional murderer. vetting had been ignored or put to one side. the public inquiry into spycops, too, shows the contempt the police have for the public.
and now to add insult to injury, cooper makes out that this is the force needed to restore order to the streets.
the lack of legitimacy and authority the police enjoy is their own fault. it's not just the 'rotten apples' committing crimes, it's the entire establishment - the sort of people who would order an attack on a vigil for woman murdered by a cop, for example. even out of the sorry rabble who make up the labour cabinet, cooper's an intellectual and moral midget.
