THE HORSE HAS ALREADY BOLTED

THE CHIEF INSPECTOR OF CONSTABULARY, Sir Dennis O’Connor has said that the police had staged a 30-year ‘retreat from the streets’ and handed control of them over to feral gangs of youths who know they are above the law, and, as with anyone given such status, will behave accordingly.

            Sir Dennis was speaking after the release of his study into a problem which he says many police officers do not take seriously enough. After 30-years in development, today’s coppers can be forgiven for not taking the problem seriously enough. It must seem like a natural order to today’s generation of policemen who no longer have the powers their colleagues had 40-years ago to confront the yobs ruining the lives of the very people they are supposed to serve and protect.

            We cannot blame today’s police for the way many of our children have been dragged up in a one parent family who think boundaries are what you find at Lord’s. On top which the police have to watch their Ps and Qs when confronting these children. The human rights lobby are all too ready to complain to the Police Complaints Commission (PCC), if any constable so much as raise his voice to these untamed and uneducated sons and daughters of the social-liberal revolution; a revolution that began its advance into every aspect of modern Britain 50- years ago.

            The problem has gone beyond the possibility of being nipped in the bud. Whole reams of Human Rights law, both here and in Europe (which we are obliged to obey) have been compiled with the best of motives, to protect our children. Adults have, however, in many cases, vanquished control of their children because the ultimate penalty has been taken from them by the law. They can now only use reason, or, as final resort, tell them to sit in a corner somewhere until they are ready to apologise for whatever misdemeanour the parents think they have committed – but on no occasion must the parent use the minimal of physical chastisement against them.

            If the child knows it is in such an infallible position, he or she has no reason to comply with their parent’s wishes and can effectively take control. But the ‘professionals’, it seems, believe childhood innocents is incapable of such a calculation. Indeed they may be right, but children always test the parent, it is part of growing up and where the boundaries come into play. And if those boundaries are undermined by the law itself then what chance does the parent have under such circumstances.

            The feral gangs of children brought to our attention on many of our housing estates up and down the country almost daily by the media, are not the gullible and untainted that the laws used to protect them suggest they are.

            These gangs of pure vindictiveness understand one thing, that they have been given a power that no other adult citizen has at their disposal. They are cunning and street-wise; they know  they have had no workable deterrence placed on their behaviour. The ASBO has been quickly seized upon as a badge of honour, as proudly worn as any medal by a British soldier. Was this the intended purpose of the last government who invented the acronym?

SIR DENNIS O’CONNOR’S study is about 20-years too late; the horse has bolted, and for him to close the stable door with his much belated admission, would be almost funny if it were not so serious.

            Even when the police take action and there are convictions, the penalties dished out by either the magistrates or the judiciary fall well short of public expectation and even the law itself in many cases. Who after all are the police meant to protect? Why the general public, the very people who pay their wages. The police are being let down however  by both the politicians who in part  make the laws, and the judges who then interpret them

            In extremis, it seems that you have to commit a massacre to receive the full meaning of the term ‘life sentence’. Our whole penal system has been systematically undermined at every level by the strangle-hold that liberal culture has placed upon the throats of the nation since the early 1960s.

            If we continue on the path we are intent upon pursuing then this country will indeed become a nation  deserving of the Third World status a recent catholic emissary to the Pope described us as. We are a country drowned in moral relativism, that liberal concept that has ‘guided’ the nation since the 1960s and has led us to this impossible position on crime that Sir Dennis O’Connor’s study has, much belatedly, led us to.