Posted on 07/18/2008 6:15:27 AM PDT by yankeedame
By Matthew Hickley
Last updated at 12:17 AM on 18th July 2008
Control of police authorities - the local bodies which oversee each force - is to be handed to directly-elected members.
They will be able to hire and fire chief constables, dictate priorities and control parts of their funding.
Most Government targets will be dropped completely under reforms unveiled by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith.

Islamic militants who back Sharia law could take over
local police authoritiesDanger:
Senior police figures warned yesterday there was a 'very real danger' that extremists - such as far-right activists or hardline Islamist groups - could whip up local opinion and win seats. This could raise community tensions and create massive problems for chief constables.
But ministers insisted that greater local control would return power to local communities....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
A Sadr-City on the Thames.
I suspect ‘extremists’ is the scare-quotes version of ‘voters’. This is the police bureaucracy protecting itself.
Wrong. What usually happens is that the big-mouths and militants get control - dispensing jobs, firing long-time workers who belong to other groups, funding pork-barrel projects to benefit themselves, pocketing public funds, etc. - while the moderates (who might make up the majority of the community) are too frightened and subdued to do anything.
We had this experience in New York City with local "community" control of schools until the wider community got disgusted and more control was centralized.
I think the UK government knows tnis but they appear to be deathly afraid of the Muslim activists and will do anything to try to appease them.
They will stand by and observe the development of a parallel society. Good bye rule of law.
I sometimes think that all the Elites are “on board” for the Islamization of the West, and then the world. Why? Well, they want a one world government, which dovetails nicely with the Global Caliphate. They want a submissive population to rule and Islam gives that to them on a silver platter. As long as they have their tony enclaves and pull the strings from behind the scenes.
MOTHER’S OF INVENTION old song...
It can’t happen here
It can’t happen here
I’m telling you, my dear
That it can’t happen here
Because I been checkin’ it out, baby
I checked it out a couple a times
But I’m telling you
It can’t happen here
Oh darling, it’s important that you believe me
(Bop bop bop bop)
That it can’t happen here
Who could imagine that they would freak out somewhere
in Kansas . . .
(Kansas . . . Kansas . . . Kansas . . . Kansas . . . )
(Kansas, Kansas, do-do-dun to-to
Kansas, Kansas, la la la)
(Kansas, Kansas, do-do-dun to-to
Kansas, Kansas)
Who could imagine that they would freak out in Minnesota . . .
(Mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi
Mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi-mi . . . )
(Mama Minnesota, Mama Minnesota, Mama Minnesota,
Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma Mama Minnesota,
Mama Minnesota, Mama Minnesota,
Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma Mama Minnesota)
Who could imagine . . .
Who could imagine
That they would freak out in Washington, D.C.
(AC/DC bop-bop-bop)
(AC/DC do-do-do-dun, AC/DC
Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma, AC/DC)
But it can’t happen here
Oh baby, it can’t happen here
(AC/DC bop-bop-bop)
Oh baby, it can’t happen here
(AC/DC bop-bop-bop)
It can’t happen here
Everybody’s safe and it can’t happen here
(AC/DC bop-bop-bop)
No freaks for us
(AC/DC bop-bop-bop)
It can’t happen here
(AC/DC bop-bop-bop)
Everybody’s clean and it can’t happen here
No, no, it won’t happen here
(No, no, it won’t happen here)
Read THE DECLINE OF THE WEST by Oswald Spengler.
He wrote of this in the 1920s
I’m afraid to.
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