Law & Order

  • The Police look as dead as the Boy Scouts

    The state of local Policing is not just a subject of ire in the local pub, it’s also a national crisis. The issues run deeply into a civilised, Western society in which services rely on its support. It’s not just for safety concerns. It’s also present for the issues of life that happen everyday, from offices to window cleaning companies.

    The fact is, the Police look as dead as the Boy Scouts. They don’t perceivably have us on their books, so to speak. It’s difficult not to identify an issue outstanding from their remit. The legacy of crime leftover from people’s social habits is now a concern. It may even be a national security matter.

  • The miseries of Reading Crown Court

    The status of a Crown Court is more than others, so I’ve been told. It ranks higher because of a proximity to more important issues. This is as far as it got until a staff member cut herself off. She wouldn’t say any more about its goings on.

    In time, I learned a lot more by myself. Not on the legitimate side, but on the criminal end of the stick. It showed me a dimension to law and order that isn’t seen often. It took me into people’s lives. It’s about as much as I will say here.

    The Crown Court in Reading is a good one, but has its shortcomings. They are in some of its staff. They’ve been to blame for much of the goings on in the town. The opportunities people have found has to do with their own criminal efforts.

    It’s never everyone, but a sizeable network was built out of its daily activity. This ramped up crime, and its own lawbreaking is something to behold. As a town was engulfed, work started to dismantle it. It took a long time.

  • Living the law of the land

    The UK is a boiling pot of neighbourhoods, and communities, but it produces a few off tastes now and then. It’s not the dodgy courts, traders, or dealers that are the main issue here. The point is the pitfalls of integration, degenerating gentrification, and simple neglect, among common forms of abuse.

    The study of the law is considered advanced beyond others, but the practice of it is less refined. It’s a gritty, bare, and naked arrangement with the vagaries of all classes, types, and realms in society. It doesn’t look appealing to those looking on. It’s also unseemly at times if the crimes are particularly gruesome.

    The UK has five law schools in the world top 20 rankings. The two top spots are reserved for Cambridge and Oxford (3 and 7), but the others are nested in there, too. Sadly, Wales doesn’t feature at all, but England and Scotland each have spots. Over 129,000 study it, according to Times Higher Education.

    The daily press are happy to type away about our decline, but the pursuit of happiness here is predicated on the law. It’s heartening that London is seeing development in this area. A new Supreme Court opened its doors in 2009, and right now, a City of London Law Courts is being built on a site in Fleet Street.

    The potential for more justice, and therefore peace, is apparent across all of the UK. It’s shown in the take-up of courses, the expansion of the news room concept, and the development of legal facilities across our communities. The fight is to make sure cases get to court, and our disputes are heard.

  • People trafficking isn’t a norm

    In an age of travel it’s difficult to say why people trafficking is such a bad thing.

    It doesn’t look dishonest because of conflicts, climate change, and political troubles which mean people have to flee.

    The disturbing truth is that whilst seeking refuge is possible, other troubles creep up slowly.

    It entails a slow departure, and covert journey across territory that’s not yours.

    There are no alternatives to this, at times.

    It’s why it’s desperate, and it’s dangerous to deal with people traffickers regardless.

    They’re criminals, and hold ill-will toward us, our society, and our laws.

    It’s difficult but not impossible to crack this sort of crime whenever it happens.

  • People trafficking in an age of travel

    The sight of people appearing in their tens of thousands at a coastline is not easy to deal with.

    In some respects, it’s our most difficult challenge today.

    It’s a crime to do it, and it only prospers because of crime gangs. It isn’t possible to just ‘appear’ on a coastline and disappear to another country. It takes a lot of law breaking and force in order to make it happen.

    In the UK, we face this almost daily. The fact is many have arrived, and many keep coming, so much so that we are beleaguered with a sense of crime on our shores.

    It isn’t pleasant and it isn’t a happy affair. It means dealing with very dangerous people.

    It also means fighting back, which is the hardest part of all.