The Price Of Right-On Policing

[youngmafbog]

Why are Plod being so complacent? Is it because he doesnt tick any diversity boxes which is all the liberal elite top Police seem to care about these days.

I bet if it was a biker filing himself speeding they would have been straight round for a prosecution.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3826830/Schoolboy-15-battered-gang-ten-thugs-wielding-hockey-stick-police-not-despite-given-VIDEO-attack.html

[anotheoldgit]

Could it be cos he's white?

[Zacs-Master]

That's the same question YMB is asking, more or less.

[cassa333]

If that had happened to my son and especially if the police refused to act they thugs would have found themselves on the receiving end of a baseball bat at some point.

A fundraising page should be set up for a private procecution of these little ***

[Gromit]

The police maybe have more pressing crimes that playground skirmishes.

I cannot see 10 thugs on that video, I can see 5. His attackers seemed to be mainly girls and a couple of smaller children. While not condoning any attack, I am not sure this warrants a police investigation

[vulcan42]

Being hit with a hockey stick is a playground skirmish, what sort of school did you go to Gromit?

[Barmaid]

I suspect it is because the assault happened on 12 August and was not reported until 21 August.

The headline is somewhat misleading saying that the police refuse to do anything. According to the article, they have identified those involved and are working with the school. That's hardly a refusal.

I think it has naff all to do with diversity.

[dannyk13]

If ,as they state, they are processing the matter with the school and enquiries are continuing how are they not doing anything about it ?

[mushroom25]

more to do with schools and the lip service they generally pay to their policy on bullying. although this occurred in the holidays, the police consider it a school matter. the school won't do anything because if they're like other school bullying policies i've run up against, they use the bullies as a de-facto police force to frighten the rest of the population and keep an order of sorts.

[Gromit]

vulcan42
A rough one. Though hockey would have been considered a girls game so no lad would use a hockey, cricket bats were more the weapon of choice.
I am sure incidents like this (and worse) happen many times a day, all over the country. Do ABers really consider this something the police should be spending time on?

[dannyk13]

Gromit
Should they wait until somebody is killed?

[ichkeria]

We should have a Godwin prize equivalent now for mentions of 'liberal elite'

:-)

[ichkeria]

Hockey and lacrosse mind you are far rougher than cricket (and even lacrosse is played by blokes tho not sure that matters)

[youngmafbog]

//Do ABers really consider this something the police should be spending time on?//

Actually yes I do.

If you catch them young you have a chance of nipping it in the bud plus the opportunity to stop yet another male suicide.

[Gromit]

Is the Daily Mail employing Romanians to write their articles?

// Aspiring soldier Jamie was forced him to fight one of them and was told him if he left... //

It is to be hopec Islamic State has no blondie front line girlies, or he may have to improve his running away skills.

[andy-hughes]

What the Mail knows full well - and is choosing not to mention here - is that video evidence of this type will not stand up as identifying the culprits in a court of law.

Knowing something is one thing - being able to prove it is another.

So it is not 'right-on policing', or 'Plod being complacent' - it is about not pursuing people when there is no realistic chance of charging and convicting them.