Sunday, 14 August 2011

Inconsistency of guidance.

As the streets of England have began to calm, after what was almost an entire week of rioting and disorder. Officials are beginning to step in and analyse the disruption that was caused, and it has almost brought a new riot amongst us. Police seniors and government officials are currently disputing whether the actions taken were right, given the circumstances.
The government, behind their secure, fortified gates, are arguing that Britain is in need of an outside view, and are currently recruiting a former New York police chief, Bill Bratton. While the Police seniors are sceptical of what this will achieve, they have commented saying "I am not sure I want to learn about gangs from an area of America that has 400 of them."

So, that is basically my way of piecing together the well-spread out news of the past few days. Although, I honestly don't  understand why the government have criticised the police, saying "You weren't forceful enough" and "Our police are too timid." just to go to the trouble of recruiting a former New York police chief, to state and attempt to fix the flaws within our task force. Now, personally I don't have anything against America or its foundations, but given what has happened recently, I really do believe the government have been a little deluded in their actions. It wasn't exactly the police being too timid, or not being forceful enough. This was an uprising of the nation, showing their true colours to our society, and goverment, showing how little control the men in the green chairs have over our country. But of course, that has infuriated the little men in the big chairs, in the houses of parliament. It's very easy for them to try to act as the coordinator, coordinating the pawns, but I honestly believe there wasn't much more to be done, than what was achieved.
I honestly believe bringing in an official from the USA is just going to be a waste of airplane fuel, at the cost of our taxes. There is nothing any other political minded soul can say, other than this was a disaster for England, that we could barely restrain from further chaos.
As far as i'm aware, our police-force acted upon a sudden uprising, and acted as quickly as they could. There was no way of knowing this chaos was on the horizon. Though, being able to coordinate 13,000 police officers in the given areas over such a small period of time and bringing the rioting to a stand still, was a damn great effort.

This wasn't my typical style of writing, but I just wanted to attempt to piece together the stories that have been chewed up and spat out of politicians mouth's over the past few days. Not just for other peoples viewing, but it was also to help me understand what had happened aswell. (:
Also, pic semi-unrelated.

8 comments:

  1. Wow great post!
    BTW I'm really happy they are calmer now!

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  2. Glad everything has settled down a bit, hopefully England can solve its social issues to prevent it from happening again before the Olympics.

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  3. It's scary more than anything, I don't know if anyone would have been as prepared as they said they could have been for such an event.

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  4. I wasn't too happy with this post overall, but i'm glad some people are finding it atleast 'okay' to read. (:
    was mainly to help myself read what all I had remembered, all in one piece. ^_^

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  5. I'm glad things are getting better. Seemed like London was going to completely burn down and you guys were having a revolution here in America.

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  6. I like our police, im glad they dont have guns.

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  7. You know you have a fucked up government when they criticize their authorities. Great post!

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