Missing the point that whilst Hillsborough, Plebgate etc have indeed alerted the public to some disgraceful behaviour, the key difference in previous scandals is that it is starting to highlight individual accountability.

Names are now being attached to statements and activities. Police men and women are being prosecuted and jailed.

Weeting, Elveden and Leveson should not be ignored in assisting these changes, even if they didn't go far enough.

and let's not forget Michael Barrymore now saying what others want plain and simple: revenge

And, on last week's Beeb R4 'Any Questions'.

Longtime half-good journo Max Hastings said, paraphrased,

" I speak a lot with barristers and judges, and they say that juries are now disbelieving police statements like never before. "

WorldView wrote:
And, on last week's Beeb R4 'Any Questions'.

Longtime half-good journo Max Hastings said, paraphrased,

" I speak a lot with barristers and judges, and they say that juries are now disbelieving police statements like never before. "

about time and I remember when it was the opposite.

I've said it for years ( as has JK and others) and finally society is waking up...police should go through rigorous psychological testing to weed out psychopaths who are attracted to jobs with power.

They are in politics, the army, the police and so on. The least intelligent ones become coppers..dangerous..

no sane person could ever falsify evidence to lock up an innocent and let the guilty roam free yet it's happened time and time again.


An example of what I believe is a sick and diseased mind _ MWT on twitter relays every sordid sexual snippet he can find from hideous murder to rape etc etc...yet inbetween he wishes readers 'Merry Christmas to you and yours' repeatedly....a mind obsessed by the ugly side of life.

Check history Hedda.

And find that the whole base of unearned privelidge, heirachy and elitist pyramids is 'fuedal'.

Fascist thugs, spivs, pirates, psychos very well paid by the Crown & Barons to 'fued', do their dirty work with 'press gangs' and worse.

For the criminal King John, and later so called 'colonialism', World Empire. Then the first Brit senior cop 'Sir' Bob Peel knew to employ exactly such psychos to so called 'police' Britain's fast growing big cities and slums in the post-rural/early industrial era.

With the poor sent in chains to OZ for stealing bread to feed their kids. Of course ITK says they should never breed tho they were good enough to frontline fight and die at Waterloo, The Crimea, Somme, El Alamein, Falklands, Afghanistan et al)

A Victorian, still true saying was, "Nowt a hair's breadth twixt criminal and cop."

Why the good JK would even want one of their tacky 'gongs' beats us.

Plus ce change.

In 2013 I predict more and more prosecutions of individual police officers; credit card numbers are regularly stolen during house searches, top cops get away with urging subordinates to bend evidence and manufacture statements; anything other than "no comment" interviews provokes return visits to witnesses to alter statements; all the Hillsborough and Plebgate scandals will draw attention to these regular offences.

And then lawyers will look back at past convictions and start appeals similar to those that kick in when expert witnesses are discredited.

Someone somewhere will ask "why did Milly Dowler's killer escape detection for so many years, enabling him to kill two other innocent girls?".

Many retired cops living in luxury will have their past actions examined and prosecutions and convictions will follow.

Worth a quick glance...

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