What could possibly go wrong?
Instead of going out and catching real criminals, police in Macclesfield will harass the law-abiding. They’re going to play burglar by testing doors and windows to see if they’re secure. Welcome to the nanny state.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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February 12th, 2010 at 11:27 am
I certainly hope the police here in Florida don’t ever think this is a good idea.
February 12th, 2010 at 11:42 am
Yeah because the best thing to do is come through someones front/back door at 0 dark 30. Thats a good way to Permenently end your carrer and life. Of course not to mention what woul be done to said homeowner because we all know he was wrong protecting his family and yhe officer was helping him. Same problem as a no knock raid on the wrong house where the homeowner is an upstandling law abiding citizen believes in his right to protect his family and is woken rom a slomber by the door crashing in a*larm going off and men in all black rushing into his bedroom with guns drawn.
February 12th, 2010 at 11:45 am
Good thing they’ve disarmed their subjects.
This isn’t really all that new, in some places if you leave your car unlocked the police will steal your stuff and leave you a note to come to the police station to pick it up.
Presumably, they make you stand in the corner or go to bed without dinner.
And that’s why we have a Constitution.
If they tried that here I’d just go the DA and swear out a complaint about the police stealing my stuff. I’d have a signed confession, open and shut case.
February 12th, 2010 at 11:55 am
It’s sickening, but a similar situation occured in Texas, of all places, over the Christmas holiday season. It may have happened other places, I don’t know.
Bands of cops were “patrolling” parking lots at malls, etc., and opening up cars and trucks. If vehicles were unlocked or if they left stuff out in plain sight, the police would then move stuff out of plain sight and lock the doors. They would then put an official note under the windshield wiper of the vehicle.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t illegal to open someone else’s vehicle in a parking lot?
tweaker
February 12th, 2010 at 11:59 am
WOW; HOW STUPID IS THAT!!? If they did that where I reside in a small town in the boonies, there woulld be a high probability that an Officer would get SHOT by mistake. You know, for UNLAWFUL ENTRY INTO SOMEONE ELSES HOME! Guess they dont have a castle doctrine there. BUY MORE AMMO
February 12th, 2010 at 12:18 pm
Well, it seems easier and safer than tracking down actual criminals.
The EFT rule is in effect here: Easier For Them.
February 12th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
lol Britain
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February 12th, 2010 at 2:26 pm
In Britain it strikes me as imprudent to call the police if there is a burglar in the home. They seem more interested in knowing why you have something worth stealing than the burglars. God forbid that you actually harmed one. Well constable the burglar slipped on the waxed floor and stabbed himself 9 times will probably not work out so well. Sounds like every brit needs a flower garden out back.
February 12th, 2010 at 2:52 pm
As I’ve said before, it’s well past the time that we can drop the “Great” from before “Britain”.
February 12th, 2010 at 3:53 pm
“Good thing they’ve disarmed their subjects.”
Do you think the bloke cops would have the guts to do this if the subjects had’nt been disarmed?
February 12th, 2010 at 5:23 pm
A hot cup of piss clutched by the homeowner would change the name of this fiasco from “Operation Golden” to …… errrr, well, you get the picture.
February 12th, 2010 at 7:36 pm
Wow. Just wow. Every time a story like this surfaces, the urge to ever see any part of Britain just withers even more.
Sad.
February 12th, 2010 at 9:10 pm
That is so sad.
Sounds like a decent Monty Python skit, huh?
February 13th, 2010 at 12:36 am
Mr. Free Market goes off the air, and now this. He’d have those plods pilloried, horse-quartered, and their heads on pikes by now. Arthur slumbers in the West, stout bulldogs will out, and I am Marie of Roumania.
February 13th, 2010 at 1:46 pm
This is not to keep criminals out, but rather to keep the sheep in their pens. This is like a farmer checking the barn door, or a jailer checking the locks on the cells.
In the article they even mention that only a minority of burglars come in via unlocked doors and windows. Locks don’t seem to deter the majority of the criminals. At best this is security theater, meant to provide the illusion that the masters care about proles.