tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34993014.post6017244995053440674..comments2024-01-13T10:12:47.756+00:00Comments on Ranting Stan: Why Blair had to goUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34993014.post-2093060006462054642008-11-14T19:37:00.000+00:002008-11-14T19:37:00.000+00:00We should have seen this nonsense coming of course...We should have seen this nonsense coming of course, so we are entirely to blame. You'll recall that some years ago studies were made as to perceptions of crime compared to actual risks and incidences. One startling statistic that was not highlighted but could be deduced from the figures given was that while old ladies being mugged by callous young thugs was frequently headline news, young men were actually two hundred times (if I recall correctly) more likely to suffer serious physical assault than old ladies and forty times more likely to suffer serious physical assault than any female, yet the perceptions of risk were almost exactly in inverse proportion.<BR/><BR/>The development of visible policing initiatives using almost powerless and wholly ineffectual pseudo-police substitutes to reassure those who are actually at very little risk from crime was pretty much a foregone conclusion. Visible penalties must follow as a matter of course.<BR/><BR/>The logic is faultless: 'You cannot say our policies are not working because you see the evidence with your own eyes.' That we keep seeing the same evidence, time after time after time, will be cause for another visible initiative.<BR/><BR/>PS: the verification word for this comment is 'vostess'. I don't know what a vostess is but I can see that it is certainly feminine.William Gruffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02434757003701117714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34993014.post-78467959153423859592008-11-13T20:33:00.000+00:002008-11-13T20:33:00.000+00:00Stan, it is completely unpalatable that offenders ...Stan, it is completely unpalatable that offenders on community service wear hi-vis jackets. The hi-vis jacket is what set apart the jobsworth from the reat of the population.<BR/><BR/>I'd make the bastards wear pink overalls.<BR/><BR/>word verification: pedialo<BR/><BR/>what a kiddy fiddler uses for grooming in Benidorm.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com