Comments by "Jack Spring" (@jackspring7709) on "Peter Hitchens: Scrap the Police and Start Again" video.

  1. Beautiful quote - that belongs on a poster.
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  2. When Robert Peel announced his intention to set up a met police force in London he faced massive public opposition because the Victorians believed it could lead to an unaccountable bully boy force and a police state. They were a smart lot, those Victorians. Until the police arrived the public relied on 'watchmen' - these were hand picked members of the public who were noted for their bravery and integrity. Maybe that's where a future model may lie.
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  3. A few years ago I was in Whitechapel, London when a black man skated up to me at traffic lights, put a gun up to my face and pulled the trigger (luckily there was nothing in it) he then turned the gun and pointed it at the belly of a heavily pregnant woman and pulled the trigger again: in the shouting match that followed he called us both racists and ran into a nearby bank. The woman rang the police but they didn't want to know, they weren't interested - eventually I told her to hang up "on those worthless bastards". The only reason I didn't beat the living daylights out of that scumbag was because I knew I would have been arrested and it would have been on the grounds of a 'racially motivated attack': if there had been cellphone footage of it I can only imagine how that would have looked on YouTube. The police are not only useless - they're dangerous.
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  4. Exactly. They know how to turn this around - they just don't want to: and that fact alone raises many different questions about what they are doing and why.
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