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The police are expending a lot of resources to figure out who's cutting their little cameras down.
And I say they are their cameras because Flock doesn't install them where there's nobody paying them.
The thing the cops need to recall is something Sir Robert Peele said:
"To recognise always that the power of the police to fulfill their functions and duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behaviour, and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect."
That sentence is almost 200 years old.
It's still true.
The cops wasting resources finding the people who are cutting these cameras down is undermining public approval of their existence at a time when half the body politic has been clamoring for their elimination.
Good show!
Getting back to Peelian Principles would go a long way towards mending the rift between the police and the citizens who've delegated their powers to them.
We need that approach here in the UK more than ever. Our police have become the enforcement of the Labour Government.
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DeleteWell, that and cease importing sharia supporting third world vermin to "serve" as police.
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ReplyDeleteBetween the War on (Some Unpopular) Drugs and the civil rights laws, the Constitution and Bill of Rights are dead letters.
The thing about the de-Flocking movement is it isn't just one person doing it, or even any kind of organized group. It is a true grass roots movement. That isn't going to be too easy to eliminate. The Police will try to catch a few people and throw the book at them to make them an example to try to discourage it, but that could backfire on them if they turn those people into folk heros, especially if political forces conspire to make their efforts to persecute the freedom fighters fail.
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