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« Perpetual victimhood | Main | State constitutional rights to defend self and property »

Slight improvement in the UK

Posted by David Hardy · 16 July 2008 09:13 AM

It sounds from this story as if the improvement is essentially: "formerly, if you defended yourself in a very restrained way, we would prosecute you anyway and require you to prove your innocence: now we won't file charges." That this is viewed as a reform tells us all we need to know. Some persons quoted, tho, say it's no more than window-dressing.

"It came as it emerged that homeowners could have to wait up to three days after reporting a crime to see a police officer, according to a leaked draft of the Policing Green Paper.

It sets out new national standards for local policing for all 43 forces cross England and Wales.

Callers to the police will be given set times within which officers will attend an incident.

The paper says that this will be "within three hours it if requires policing intervention or three days if there is less immediate need for a police presence.""

· non-US

5 Comments | Leave a comment

Brian | July 16, 2008 2:27 PM | Reply

When seconds count, the UK police are only hours away.

OryGunner | July 16, 2008 3:09 PM | Reply

Well said, Brian. Poor British. What has your government done to you? :'(

Brandon | July 16, 2008 4:12 PM | Reply

Three hours? Wow, Britons must feel so much safer now.

Rivrdog | July 17, 2008 8:02 AM | Reply

Jeebus! At least here in the Soviet Republik of Oregon the municipal policing agencies MAIL you a report form so that you can report your own crime, and they do it on the same shift as you report the crime on.

Phillep | July 17, 2008 8:46 AM | Reply

The British need to adopt the custom of "shoot, shovel, and shut-up".

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