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Everyone should have a look at this. Even a cursory glance. I just saw it on Newsnight Review, and it is a class act. A policeman, an anonymous one, blogging his way through A Policeman's Lot.

http://nightjack.wordpress.com/

Have a look at A Survival Guide For Decent Folk (at the right-hand side) to begin with, and see where you go from there.

From The Evil Poor:

"For London you would be right but this phenomenon of the evil poor has spread so that not a town in England does not have it's unfair share of Kappa clad, drugged up, workshy, wasters swaggering through the town centre streets with a can of lager in the one hand and a bull mastiff on a string in the other. They aren't out looking for a job or a chance in life, let alone a wash. They are just looking to do you over, nick your stuff, sell you stolen stuff and drugs, take the next drugs and collect the next dole. The attendant girls aren't much better, shrieking complicit harpies who will all end up looking grey and faded round the edges, kicking dirty nappies out of the way to feed the dog in the kitchen of their two bedroom basic box flat on the grim estate where everything has been broken if it can't be stolen."

Shit, either I've been reading him before, or he's been reading me.

Or maybe it's really like that.



And this, further down:

"There has been talk and much naiveté about respect and a "respect agenda". Even in my nick the silly posters have gone up saying "Give Respect - Get Respect." I think of it as the algebra of the willfully uninformed. There is a simple problem with this stupid, stupid (repeat stupid) slogan. What you and I mean by respect and what Adibok boy means by it are not the same. His respect means "Act like you are scared when I am around. Do what I say because my wants come first every time. If you don't agree, if you don't do what I say, then that is disrespect and you won't like me if I feel disrespected" This is respect as a loaded gun with a hair trigger pointed at your head by a youth high on drugs, booze and ego... Sorry if that's a bit bleak but it's a lot true."


And further on:

"We, the Police are currently responding with the Dock Greenism of Neighbourhood Policing and Community Focus as if turning back our policing methods 50 years will return society to the state of the 1950's with us."

Finally, this from the TROLLS section:

From Troll 'KateBreezer':

"I worry about your state of mind Nightjack. Your syntax and prose are fairly good but your attitude is jaundiced. What you seem to be saying is that - there are two shades in life - black and white. Sorry about the grey then aye? No compassion or understanding, no latitude, no empathy - just nasty people who need a smack round the gob, and we all have to adhere to your particular values which I find uncompromising and a little sadistic"

Ah, she's talking about me!

I'm off to bed now. I'll start again in the morning!

Separated at birth.

Having your Staffie on a lead when out scoring is a traditional precaution. If the worst comes to the worst and you're about to get stopped and searched for, say, five gees of smack you can always shove it down the mutt's throat and retrieve it at your or your canine's convenience later so to speak.

Aren't Our Policemen wonderful!

Have you read it, QM?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/review/8027307.stm#2

Scroll down a bit - Blogging Nightjack.

The way it was presented on telly, it's a warts-and-all description of policing today.

As well as some philosophical meanderings, which, frankly, I enjoyed.

5 stars to Nightjack

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WTF?

Not a sideline of yours, is it, QM?