Common Purpose has transformed the Police from Keepers of the Peace into ... whatever the fuck Cressida Dick and her fellow demons are. Soon be time for things to change.
As some one familiar with the big cases and real criminals committing real crime you'll know who the yorkshire ripper was and what he had done, how big the investigation was and the cost, and so on...how was he caught?...just saying
nah it was by a traffic officer doing a traffic check...now im not saying they didn't nearly fook up the evidence when they let him have a piss and he dropped the ball pane hammer but hey ho...
These days, cops accidentally doing good work get punished ... but where do you send a traffic cop when he's fucked up?
IIRC the Ripper was stopped while driving or parked up by an officer on patrol due to apparent suspicious activity and it turned out that the constable’s instincts were on the money. I call that good police work. If this is the way the Met now plan to clear up unsolved crime then that to me would show they have given up on intelligence led policing and now rely on wild stabs in the dark like checkpoints “just in case”. That isn’t good police work - it’s expensive, oppressive and a PR disaster when nowadays only a very small percentage of crimes are even investigated properly, much less lead to an arrest or prosecution.
The cops interviewed and released Sutcliffe nine times during five years... The investigation was ultimately sucessful - hurrah - but not before thirteen women were murdered and another seven were attacked. The investigation was a complete cock up and led to a major overhaul of the police investigation proceedures in the early 1980's.
The good old days. Now ... there would be no overhaul ... just rainbow flags, facepaint and dancing in the street. It must make proper coppers who are still in the force want to puke.
The coppers resist all attempts to drag them into the modern world, whilst covering up the massive mistakes of their colleagues. Think of Hillsborough, think of the miners strike, think of all the so called uncover officers of the National Public Order Intell group who broke every rule in the book, falsifacation of evidence in the Birmingham six trials - these are the cases that spring immediately to mind. Even once exposed they rarely ever apologise, and the chiefs are allowed to retire on full pensions worth hundreds of thousands. Of course there are a great many good policemen & women with good intentions, but I have severe reservations on the competance and reliability and frequently ethics of the management. If you look at the record of the Yorkshire police in the original post, even the constables should be up in arms themselves for achieving so little.
This is the point my red friend... detectives investigating crime .. then he gets caught with a car... criminals are lazy by nature and all use cars in one deceptive way or another..
Problem is now policing is set by targets the days of good old fashioned coppering where an officer knows the public and they know them are long gone and we will never get them back. Time wasted investigating hurt feelings on the internet, an expectation that every last report needs to be investigated, lack of officers, political interference in the form of Police and Crime Commissioners and Political figures together with the removal of Initiative and free thinking for Police (including the ability to tell timewasters to Feck off) with has created the almost perfect storm ineptitude
Do you think interviewing Sutcliffe nine times in five years is a good record? Do you think the conclusions about the Yorkshire Ripper investigation were wrong? If so I'd genuinely be interested to hear why with some reasoning to support your view. I am not your Red Friend. I am someone who calls a spade a spade. If the cops fcuked up, its fair to offer critiscism. The chief constables should welcome it imo, given their lack of sucesses and low public standing.
Unlike @Zhed46 road check, the checks for the ripper were ONLY for the ripper. The cops ignored any small small stuff for the sake of goodwill and for the purpose of contuinuing the checks for the ripper. I was once stopped, 11.00 pm driving home from the pub, in an old Cambridge with a big hole in the wheel arch thru to the boot and next to it a box full of tools, including a hammer, to keep the thing going. A raised eye brow and I was on my way? TB
I was going to say yes, but Sledmere where they were is in North Yorkshire - but the boundary joggles to keep the Sledmere Estate in the East Riding of Yorkshire instead of splitting it 50:50
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....was-the-yorkshire-ripper-caught-1-9678303/amp bit of irony as it’s from the same reliable source...
Looks like the funding has been drastically reduced for the camera vans https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/n...alth-budget-hits-road-safety-north-yorkshire/
yes but have you seen the speed we, I mean they come over from foxholes and down into Sledmere, en-route to seaways?
He was interviewed more than once during the course of that investigation but he didn’t have a Geordie accent. What a joke...
