All new police officers must have a degree from next year

[vetran]

If you don't spend enough money on one area of social provision then other services e.g. police, firefighters, NHS have to take up the slack.

Indeed The police were taking up the slack for the others. They frequently had to intervene where people were off their meds or should have been sectioned. The domestics they attended weekly needed the social services to split the family up because nothing was going to get better while they were together or living in that tuliphole.

Now if you fixed them the Police might be able to do a good job.

[original PM]

The first time I got done for speeding , I had to go to the police station to hand over my licence. The uniformed police woman behind the desk filled out a form and asked me my Date of Birth which is in June. But I noticed she'd written the month as a 7 on the form. So I said "No June". She looked at me, then looked at the form, looked at me again. I said again "June not July". The she looked more confused and finally picked up the pen again and went over the 7 a couple of times to make sure it was clear.

Not sure what degree you can do which teaches the order and number of months in a year - it is more expected knowledge at the age of about 10.

The main problem the police face is pikeys and chavs being pikes and chavs - until people like that are punished severely for the antisocial and threatening behaviour things will not get better.

[d000hg]

It is seemingly quite hard to punish people who don't have much to lose. Lots of them view a spell in prison as no big deal whereas I imagine everyone here would be terrified at the prospect [of losing several billing days]

[Paddy]

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[original PM]

It is seemingly quite hard to punish people who don't have much to lose. Lots of them view a spell in prison as no big deal whereas I imagine everyone here would be terrified at the prospect [of losing several billing days]

Indeed it is - so I suspect we need to stop sending people to prison and bring back 20 lashes for petty thieving and social disturbance - I guarantee it would be significantly reduced in a very short space of time.

[vetran]

Indeed it is - so I suspect we need to stop sending people to prison and bring back 20 lashes for petty thieving and social disturbance - I guarantee it would be significantly reduced in a very short space of time.

cheer up soon we will chop hands off for stealing...

[woohoo]

Indeed it is - so I suspect we need to stop sending people to prison and bring back 20 lashes for petty thieving and social disturbance - I guarantee it would be significantly reduced in a very short space of time.

How dare you! This is a modern era, we don't lash people. Now, if you fit a chip in the back of their head that delivers electric shocks, well then I'm with you.

[Paddy]

Indeed it is - so I suspect we need to stop sending people to prison and bring back 20 lashes for petty thieving and social disturbance - I guarantee it would be significantly reduced in a very short space of time.

Last Friday, [14 March 1817] a woman of the name of Grant, was flogged through the streets of Inverness, we understand for the third time, (once the previous week,) for intoxication and bad behaviour in the streets. No doubt example is necessary, and was here made with the best intention; yet public and repeated flagellation on the naked body of a woman, is revolting to our general ideas of decency and humanity; it is to be regretted, that some equally effectual punishment could not be fallen upon.

Public flogging, UK, March 1817 - CORPUN ARCHIVE ukj81703



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagellation

The Whipping Act was passed in England in 1530. Under this legislation, vagrants were to be taken to a nearby populated area "and there tied to the end of a cart naked and beaten with whips throughout such market town till the body shall be bloody".[1]
In England, offenders (mostly those convicted of theft) were usually sentenced to be flogged "at a cart's tail" along a length of public street, usually near the scene of the crime, "until his [or her] back be bloody". In the late seventeenth century, however, the courts occasionally ordered that the flogging should be carried out in prison or a house of correction rather than on the streets. From the 1720s courts began explicitly to differentiate between private whipping and public whipping. Over the course of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the proportion of whippings carried out in public declined, but the number of private whippings increased. The public whipping of women was abolished in 1817 (after having been in decline since the 1770s) and that of men ended in the early 1830s, though not formally abolished until 1862. Private whipping of men in prison continued and was not abolished until 1948.[2]

[northernladyuk]

And teaching, but that went a while back.

This 'expertise' is all nonsense. When the old man had his reassignment surgery we went for an old school barber surgeon. He was butchered, but we saved enough for a cheap pair of implants.

[northernladyuk]

cheer up soon we will chop hands off for stealing...

Once we're free from EUSSR oppression, possibilities open up like Sas's anus on pension day.