Community Policing is a program introduced under the Clinton administration ... authorised and financed under the Violent Crime Act in ’94. Community policing is a theory that individual rights have broke[n] down the moral fibre of society ... Either you’re an asset or a problem. Niki Raapana, author 2020: Our Global Future
I am a policeman and I am here to arrest you. End of Watch 2012 starring Jake Gyyllenhaal & Michael Pena & Natalie Martinez & Anna Kendrick & Frank Gillo & America Ferrera & Cody Horn & David Harbour & Cle Sloan & Kristy Wu et al, director David Ayer, opening line
Well, boys, we got ’em. Fair and square. Felony 2013 starring Joel Edgerton & Tom Wilkinson & Jay Courtney & Sarah Roberts & Melissa George et al, director Matthew Saville, rozzers on the lash
Sorry about that, detective. Drive safe, mate. ibid. rozzer to drunk rozzer at wheel
We’re all in it. The whole force, mate. I stuck my neck out from the get-go. ibid. Wilkinson
Don’t say anything. We can live with this. ibid.
London: 49,000 men and women – the Met is the country’s biggest police force. It deals with more crime than anywhere else in Britain. The Met s1e1: Policing London, BBC 2015
This is a Force under pressure – facing daily criticism ... seen by some in the community as the enemy. ibid.
In a single year they are called to over 100 murders, 70,000 robberies and burglaries, and make over 228,000 arrests. The Met s1e2: Policing London
‘Hell on Earth.’ ibid. rozzer at Notting-Hill Carnival
‘I’ve seen them grow up from nothing to – you know – running gangs.’ The Met s1e3: Policing London, rozzer
On an average night the Met Police Control Centre in central London receives more than 4,000 emergency calls. The Met s1e4: Policing London
London has the largest nighttime economy in Europe. At its heart is Soho. ibid.
Today 82 brand-new police officers are being sworn in to protect the city. The Met s1e5: Policing London
Alcohol accounts for over a quarter of all crime in Camden. ibid.
London: home to over 8,500,000 people. The task of protecting them falls to the country’s biggest police force. In a single year they are called to 90,000 robberies and burglaries, 100 murders and make more than 190,000 arrests. It’s a force seen by some as the enemy. As they deal with life, death, crime and its victims 24 hours a day. The Met s2e1: Policing London, BBC 2017
In London more guns that ever are falling into the hands of criminals. While this is just a training exercise the added threat of terrorism has forced the Met to re-think how it uses armed police. They’ve decided to recruit an extra 600 specialist firearms officers, bringing the number in the capital to just under 3,000. The Met s2e2: Policing London
A team dedicated to tackling an epidemic of phone snatching … many on stolen mopeds. ibid.
Hackney rozzer: I once saw a fox run across the road with a whole KFC bucket in its mouth. The Met s2e3: Policing London
They patrol one of the ten most violent boroughs in London. ibid.
Over the last year 13 young people have died as a result of a knife injury in London. ibid.
Nearly 200,000 people are arrested in London each year. All spend time in one of the Met’s 36 custody suites. Brixton custody in south London is the busiest in the country. The Met s2e4: Policing London
Plainclothes officer Paul Molineux is part of a crime squad using unmarked police cars to hunt down burglars, drug dealers and violent criminals. The Met s2e5: Policing London
‘The courts let them go and that really pisses me off.’ ibid. Paul
A quarter of a million people in London are believed to have taken Class A drugs in the last year. ibid.
32,800. Rather than enforcing the law, the [Afghan] police had become transformed into violent militias who worked for the war lords. They organised a massive expansion of the drug trade and they also terrorised the local people. Adam Curtis, Bitter Lake, BBC 1995
Following the logic of Marcuse’s argument, the new student left set out to attack this system of social control. It was summed up by the slogan, ‘There is a policeman inside all our heads. He must be destroyed’. And that policeman was going to be destroyed by overthrowing the state and the corporations that put it there. Adam Curtis, Century of the Self, BBC 2002
Agatha Christie should be compulsory reading for the police force. Murder at the Gallop 1963 starring Margaret Rutherford & Stringer Davis & Robert Morley & Flora Robson & Bud Tingwell & Gordon Harris & Robert Urquhart & Katya Douglas & James Villiers & Noel Howlett et al, director George Pollock, Miss Marple
Every man and dog in the force. Murder Ahoy! 1964 starring Margaret Rutherford & Lionel Jeffries & Charles Tingwell & William Mervyn & Joan Benham & Nicholas Parsons & Stringer Davis & Miles Malleson & Henry Oscar & Derek Nimmo & Gerald Cross & Bernard Adams & Edna Petrie et al, director George Pollock, detective
You’re not by any chance on the run from the police, are you? Murder, She Said 1961 starring Margaret Rutherford & Arthur Kennedy & Muriel Pavlow & James Robertson Justice & Thorley Walters & Charles Tingwell & Conrad Phillips & Ronald Howard & Joan Hickson et al, director George Pollock, boy to Rutherford
For every fella who dies in a police station and gets his name in the papers there’s hundreds more who get a quiet little hammering down a dark alley and crawl home to bed. Alan Bleasdale, Boys from the Black Stuff: Jobs For the Boys, Snowy Malone in van, BBC 1982
Remember, the police are neutral – they hate everybody. J G Ballard, Millennium People
Five minutes later it was all over. As the riot police manhandled us through the lobby we learned that the assault on The World Today had failed. Long before our arrival, the entire production team had moved to a secure studio in the basement. The police snatch squads had entered Broadcasting House through a side door in Portland Place. They were waiting for us, truncheons warm and at the ready, and made short work of any protesters lost in the mazelike corridors. We were roughly rounded up and ejected from the building, and the Corporation resumed its historic task of beguiling the middle classes. ibid. p156
Meanwhile, small confrontations loomed. Quietly and stealthily, the barricades were going up in Chelsea Marina. The lull in police activity after the Hammersmith murder had given the residents time to organize their defences. The bailiffs’ attempt to seize the Turners’ home was a threat to every property on the estate. As in the past, we all agreed, the police were doing the dirty work for a ruthless venture capitalism that perpetuated the class system in order to divide the opposition and preserve its own privileges. ibid. p216
Police forces throughout Eastern Europe found the transition to capitalism exceptionally hard. Many people reviled them for their previous complicity in repressing opponents under communism. The drudgery of policemen’s lives in the new democracies contrasted with the playboy lifestyle that some former colleagues enjoyed as they helped to build huge criminal empires. Misha Glenny, McMafia
Between 1991 and 1996, the Russian state effectively absented itself from the policing of society, and the distinctions between legality and illegality, morality and immorality, barely existed. ibid.
... I find it extraordinary that at a time when our Leader, Mrs Thatcher, has appealed to the public to support the police, you, a public person, should see fit to go on television to blackguard them.
No doubt your assessment, ringingly broadcast to the country at large, that 95% of the Metropolitan CID are as bent as a kangaroo’s hind-leg is largely correct ... Henry Root, The Henry Root Letters, to Peter Barnes at DPP Office 11th May 1979
... In my opinion a policeman should never be sent to prison, no matter what he’s done. It’s outrageous that he should be obliged to mingle with common criminals, many of whom he will have been obliged to ‘fit up’ in the execution of his duty ... ibid. to chairman of parole board 30th May 1979
In the following weeks, the pathologist who’d conducted the post-mortem on Blair Peach concluded that the weapon which killed him was a ‘hosepipe filled with lead shot, or some like weapon’. An inquiry discovered that SPG officers’ lockers contained dozens of weapons like this. It also confirmed which SPG unit, consisting of six officers, the murderer came from. Whichever one he was, he never received as much as a £10 fine. Steel, Reasons to be Cheerful
The Metropolitan police ordered gangland killings – that’s the real headline, isn’t it? We Still Kill the Old Way 2014 starring Ian Ogilvy & Alison Doody & Danny Boy Hatchard & Chris Ellison & Lysette Anthony & Tony Denham & Red Madrell & Nicky Henson & Stephen Berkoff & Danni Dyer & Adele Silva & James Cosmo et al, director Sacha Bennett