How long before NZ follows suit...

[PrincessBandit]

criminals have rights too

because.....(see below)

(And not if I had my way, I'd prune a shit-load of 'rights' from them. Losers.)

understood because.....(see below)

When a felon's not engaged in his employment
his employment
Or maturing his felonious little plans
little plans
His capacity for innocent enjoyment
'cent enjoyment
Is just as great as any honest man's
honest mans
Our feelings we with difficulty smother
'culty smother
When constabulary duty's to be done
to be done
Ah, take one consideration with another
with another
a policman's lot is not a happy one
happy one

There, all solved. G and S were onto it!!

[PrincessBandit]

... therefore they must not let that hungry dog snack on his balls.

Not unless it's Captain Adorable.

[Mr Merde]

So by looking at shop video footage of them nicking 2000 bucks outa some poor asses till, the plods can determine that the offender is allergic to dog hair, therefore they must not let that hungry dog snack on his balls.

Bull shit!

I find it hard to even believe that this whole thing is true.

Having lived in South Wales for 23 years I find it very easy to believe this.

I have mates in the South Wales Constabulary who get very frustrated by the PC bullshit they have to put up with.

One of them has been told he will never progress beyond the rank of Constable. All because he caught tweo under age joy riders one night. While lecturing them in his patrol vehicle a fatal rta was announced so he took them to see what would become of them if they continued on the path they were. He made sure the two seventeen year olds saw the victims. My mate got hauled over the coals for traumatising the poor little arseholes.

Same friend was on motorway patrol. Told to drive to one spot on the motorway and sit there as the South Wales Police force only had 1 weeks petrol at the time and they werent to chase anyone. This all changed when the police suddenly got 10 UK pounds per traffic infringement paid to them.

Sign of the times

[Dave Lobster]

Well, the usual way "controversial" policy is rammed through is:

1. Extreme / over the top policy is mooted
2. Huge public outcry
3. Policy is "watered down in response to the public". This was in fact the policy really wanted
4. Gullible public breath a sigh of relief, despite the fact that if the end result was originally proposed, there would have been huge opposition.

It's all about managing expectations....

IIRC, it was the Beiderbecke Tapes (1987, written by Alan Plater) that publicised this government practice to the gullible british public.

Yet still it's happening today.

I'm quite sure it happens here too.. but the press are too stupid (or bought. Or both!) to see it.