Officer Stabbed

[tamaris]

News about Officer Stabbed London

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/police-officer-stabbed-repeatedly-with-machete-while-attempting-to-stop-van-in-east-london-a4208171.html

[ladybirder]

Agree Smow. Their families must breathe a sigh of relief when they return home safely at the end of their shift.

Just correcting incorrect information Spath, which had I written myself I would have corrected when I realised it was wrong.

[CrapAtCryptics]

A shame the muppets who stood around filming it didnt give the officer a hand.

[ummmm]

There's only so many people who can help before they become a hindrance.

[Mamyalynne]

Agreed, there were plenty of Police there- they'd have told any passers by to keep back.

[ladybirder]

I'd be pretty peed off if I had been stabbed and people were filming me. as I lay there injured and in pain.
But, I expect we have all read in the past where information from pictures taken by the public has led to someone being arrested or at least given out vital information.
Whether that's why these people are filming is of course open to debate.

[anotheoldgit]

Smowball
/// Shocking news. Am amazed that anyone would even volunteer to be a police officer in this day and age. So so dangerous. ///

Yes it is so different from the days of Dixon of Dock Green, I wonder why that is?

[spathiphyllum]

Maybe because Jack the Ripper died in 1888.

[agchristie]

Who would want to pursue a career as a police officer?

I suspect many a pupil leaving school these days will have similar thoughts about becoming a prison officer, a teacher, working in A&E etc.

Is our workforce valued enough? Many professions are stressful enough but they should not have to cope with the additional abuse that many face. Some may say, it goes with the territory, but that is not always the case.

[anotheoldgit]

Spath
/// Maybe because Jack the Ripper died in 1888. ///

Oh he did, did he that is news since it hasn't yet been proved who Jack the Ripper was.

But since you have brought him up, I wonder if the names of London's knife gang killers, will go down in history and still be known in another 130 or so, years time?

[spathiphyllum]

Doubt it, throughout time, especially in London (areas like soho, whitechapple) crime, murders, theft and prostitution has always been rife. You just get media reports about it now.

[THECORBYLOON]

I would think the name of anyone responsible for multiple murders would be remembered for many decades to come.