Some related posts from Technorati and Google.
Purple Elephant's Corner: I’ve also been sheding a tear over PC Sharon Beshenivsky and the fact she was murdered on her kid’s 4th birthday which is tragic. What is also disturbing me about this case is the knee jerk reaction from the pubic that Police should be armed, I’m concerend that this policy would cause more tragedies than it prevents. (via Cosmos)
in vino veritas: I suppose Humphrys thinks that female officers should be kept in the safety of the police stations, doing desk work or filing their nails, whilst their more capable male colleagues go and do the dangerous work of real policing. Apart from being incredibly anachronistic, this line of reasoning also makes no sense: if anything mattered, it was the fact that both officers were probationers with less than 2 years' experience, rather than their sex. (via Cosmos)
Someone Else's Life: Recent entries: Responsibility for Sharon Beshenivsky's death lies with the three armed thugs who were raiding a travel agents in Bradford, and who fired at Sharon and her colleague Teresa Milburn, 37 when they arrived to investigate. The two probationary police officers - Sharon joined the force just nine months ago, her colleague Teresa in April last year - were responding to a personal attack alarm sounded by a member of staff at the travel agents, which was popular with local muslims planning pilgrimage to Mecca. (via Cosmos)
Blottered: Between 7,000 and 8,000 officers in England and Wales are already armed with 1 in 10 London Metropolitan police officers armed following the bombings in July. Most of those officers with weapons are part of special armed response units while the majority of British officers remain unarmed. (via Cosmos)
Ross Easton - Ross Easton's Little Bit of The Web: What’s the world coming to? (via Cosmos)
[Modern Tribalist] British policewoman gunned down by black and Asian gang members: Mohammad Yousaf, the owner who is in his fifties, and his sons Aqeel and Wakas, in their twenties, were behind the counter when three men walked in just after 3pm. One was Asian, about 25 to 30, and two were black and in their twenties.
[Johnrlott.com] John Lott's Website: Seeing kids on the shooting range was especially gratifying. You could see the look of anticipation ”” almost like Christmas morning ”” on their faces as they walked quickly to a high-powered spotting scope to see how well they'd done.
[Plumer.blogspot.com] Bradford Plumer: At any rate, these are badly disjointed thoughts, sorry, but I promised to say a bit about one of the most glaring and overlooked types of intelligence failure throughout U.S. history: namely, our poor ability to predict how other countries””or other people, period””will react to our actions abroad. Robert Jervis has written a few papers on this, but to put it another way, U.S. policymakers rarely seem to be able to figure out how other countries see the world, a blind spot which, during the Cold War, was more serious than the various mistaken analyses about missile gaps or mineshaft gaps or the like.
Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Protection, Global Security Watch
