Where Great Britain Used To Be
So, Northamptonshire police wonder the neighborhoods with megaphones shouting at the residents to lock their doors. They call it innovative policing. And give themselves a pat on the back.
Ok, then.
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May 5th, 2009 at 8:48 am
Odd. Maybe “crackdown” is one of those words that means something different on each side of the Atlantic. We should check with the Canadians to see which way they’ve been using it.
May 5th, 2009 at 10:32 am
I’m just waiting for an official van traveling through Britain apologizing for all the crime like the one in the Mr. Neutron sketch.
May 5th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Megaphone and home do not go together. One must be removed from the equation for sleep to happen. Also, are Brits too stupid to know to lock their own doors?
May 5th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
if Brits really are leaving their front doors unlocked and ajar, then either (1) there can’t be such a rash of burglaries as would justify much of a police crackdown to begin with, or (2) they’re too stupid to do what a cop with a bullhorn is yelling at them to do anyway.
May 5th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
My inner-teenage thug wonders how much fun it would be to sneak up behind an unsuspecting Bobby and knock them on the head, so that I might steal their mega phone. It’s not like they carry guns or anything. Oh, the fun and mischief that could be done with a Megaphone!
May 5th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Traditionally, getting the Bobby’s helmet was the goal of schoolboy pranks.
How about the Bobbies change their message to, “Anyone breaking into a home will be sent to jail for 3 to 5 years for the first offense.” And if they actually did that, as well as say it, it might help reduce break-ins.
May 5th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Or the brits stop being such huge vaginas and kick all of the authortarians out on thier heavy handed statist nanny asses and get thier damn guns back…
Pretty soon we will have to step up to the plate and do that too.
May 6th, 2009 at 2:19 am
Innovative policing? They should read Freakonomics, the author’s make an excellent case that innovative policing doesn’t have much effect on crime.