Being a regular Friday night drinker in my city centre for over 30 years, I have seen many instances of police having to deal with drunken behaviour. Drunks very rarely, if ever, remonstrate in a courteous and civilised manner and whilst I'm sure that at times the police response is disproportionate I would rather have a police presence than not as the behaviour of drunken louts is similarly disproportionate.
They should be allowed to beat the living crap out of them so they won't do it again.
Just like those two bits of low-life who caused the death of that poor unfortunate 79 year old pensioner holding on to her handbag containing her dead husbands ashes (and a significant sum in cash allegedly). They should be publicly castrated.
Truth is, they will probably get off scot free with a warning not to do it in front of the CCTV next time.
So you've just got out of hospital after 2 weeks having been shot in the face and nearly losing your sight in one eye,a policeman stops you sprays you in the face with cs gas and searches you for cannabis (he finds non)....is it at all possible you might swear at him ???
the sad fact is that with peeples attitudes cleerly shown on here towards the police, is it any wonder we are even talking about this.
the mugging of this poor old lady demonstrates yet again how low this society of ours has shrunk in terms of morality's and boundaries of right and wrong. if any person here can show me a crime anything like what happened to this old lady from thirty years ago or longer i would like to see it.
i beleeve that it would never have happened at that time or before as the police would have had the powers to find them and give these thugs a pasting and then the courts would have thrown them in jail for a long period of time, unlike the soft rubbish sentenances that the judges and ken I am a wally clarke now insist on.
peeples soft attitudes over the years have led us into a society of low lifes and peeple who are not scared of anything let alone the police. i say let the police do there job properly and give peeple like this and many others a good hiding in the back of there vans. yes a few inocents may get caught up in it but it may be worth that for some to say that at leest some guilty peeple got what they deserve and justice of sorts was done. unlike almost every low life doing the most horrid of crimes getting away with it, or some soft time in jail of which is no punishment.
society in the young is sick on so many levels and we have peeple in the age group on this web site to thank for most of that.
Was he wearing a loud shirt after 11pm?
There is a determination in certain areas of the press and their impressionable readers that we are on the fast track to hell,even a cursory glance at history tends to suggest otherwise,we either arrived centuries ago or we've missed the train entirely .... there is nothing new
There was that young bloke bentley in teh 50s what shot a copper.
Of course, there was no violent crime before this generation. No 'youth' ever killed an old lady while trying to rob her, no youths had guns or shot each other. Children never got caught in the cross-fire. Never.
One 89 year old can't remember a similar crime and we take that as a basis for assumptions about a whole country/generation. Hardly statistically significant. I've no doubt he remembers every winter as snow-filled and every summer as long and sunny.
My mothers cousin was mugged in 1951 by a shifty looking bloke in a black fedora and spats using a webley service revolver.
My mother was jumped on in the blackout by a fella in a wig with a glass eye.
My father used to keep a selection of sharpened coins in his pockets at the weekend to defend himself from street fights.
