On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 12:03:47 +0100, Simon O'Riordan
<[email protected]> wrote:
It's very touching how people trust the police.
And very anti-social how they don't trust anybody else.
Such a society really is toast.
I like to think I trust the police as much as I trust anybody else - at
the end of the day they are 'anybody' else.
My real problem with surveillance as such is I would much prefer police
officers on the street, not sat watching TV screens. I'd prefer an officer
driving down the M3 not sat in a room waiting for a letter to come through
telling him I've been speeding. Active policing does reduce crime. Passive
policing catches criminals once the crime has happened.
Comminities would be better off spending their time improving road
conditions around dangerous areas and not in just trying to catch the
people that cause a problem.
Do people speed past the school? What can be done to slow them down?
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