@MisterDuck 364985 wrote:
They are fucking dreaming if they think it’s gonna make one bit of difference to the attitudes of young people towards police.
I spent a lot of my youth in that force area and I don’t think thats their intention at all.
It is the modern day equivalent of a policeman randomly turning up at the places you all hang out and subtly reminding you who really has the power. Even the “nice” village bobby of the two where I once lived (I mentioned the “Life on Mars” one elsewhere) was very much like this. he wasn’t aggressive and could be OK in a “firm but fair” manner but you knew he was gathering intelligence on what young people were up to.
This cop retired some time in the mid 2000s (having reached retirement age with an unblemished record). A young chap was recruited to replace his beat. I was walking back from work and the new cop turns to me, smiles, and says “Hello Alex” and goes on his way. Doesn’t stop me or ask what I am up to or anything like that (they know better now than to just randomly check ethnic minorities in today “PC” world). I’ve never had any dealings with this chap (probably younger than me too :wink:), yet he already knows my name and what I look like..
Last time I got arrested in about 2004 TVP let slip that I definitely had “local intelligence” file record, doubtless from my then involvement with raves in buildings in Reading and on the Ridgeway (although its hardly a big secret, I was then always active on here and SJ..).
Can’t blame ’em that much for watching me as I was watching them a fair bit and also actively involved in organising raves, although since I moved here I have never been invovled in the organisation of a illegal rave (stakes are too high now and there are too many aspects of the current scene in the UK I disagree with)
