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Respect

It's the word of the week. George Galloway, the MP who knocked down the Congressional Committee, has a political party called Respect. Tony Blair, beloved leader of the British, has decided that we all need respect and so he is about to tackle the yob culture that now controls our streets.

Yobs, young men (and increasingly women) are threatening. They chew gum, spitting it on the streets (an awful habit), they wear strange clothes - including hoods that they use to cover up their faces from the myriad selection of cameras that now dominate our streets.

The lack of police on the streets are given as the real reason why we face such problems. Nobody remembers the mods and rockers of the 60s & 70s. They also fail to realise that one major factor is the Crown Prosecution Service: a collection of ill-trained solicitors who have replaced experienced police sergeants and inspectors in deciding what offences the miscreant should face. Now they want reports, in my day we placed charges, took the offender to court where, in central London, a stipendiary magistrate judged the situation, rapidly. It was justice. Sometimes rough, but never damaging. Yobs knew how far they could go, and only rarely exceeded those limits. Police officers were respected.

Now young yobs know there is no limit to their actions as penalties are meaningless, doing little but add to the clan kudos they receive. Police officers know longer sort out yobs, by insisting they move on or get nicked. Lawyers of all types grow richer. The populace feels threatened. That is not justice.

Let the police handle the streets. Make them walk alone, without reflective jackets. Let them face these young people and build respect, save in the knowledge that the system of justice will back up the police officer who appears to act properly.

Above all do not let lawyers get involved with that end of the law. Scrap the CPS today.

posted by Suffolk Notes @ 8:53 am