Another post in the "This Country Is Fucked" series
If you are going to be the victim of crime, then you'd better hope that the perpetrator is not someone committing a first offence, or you will no get justice. In fact, you will most likely feel fucked off as well as fucked over - and I mean by the police and 'the system' more than any result of anything your assailant did.
Take the case of Hayley Clayton, who was assaulted by a Lithuanian woman (not that nationality is relevant at all) and received the injury shown in this photo. Being battered unconscious is hardly something that can or should be shrugged off. If some cunt did this to me, then I would expect the cunting police to want to find the culprit. The initial police input was okay, and after three weeks, they'd found the person responsible. It was at this point that Lincolnshire Police became useless fuckers.
The force has adopted (as all forces now seem compelled to do) a slogan, and if you Google the force you'll find that "Serving With Pride" and "Policing With Pride" are the strap lines. I wonder how proud the Chief Constable is now, after mulling over the injury and the action taken. It would of course be rather more difficult for him if the slogan of Cleveland Police was in play here - "Putting People First" - but this is the danger for all police forces using pathetic little explanations of what they are trying to do. Catch Cunting Criminals is the rather simple directive that I'd advocate for all of them!
So, Lincolnshire Police has (proudly?) decided not to do a lot, having found the assailant of Hayley Clayton, who turned out to be a first offender. The approach was therefore to offer Hayley a choice; the thug could receive a caution, or Hayley could get £100, later upped to £150. This was all in a bid to reduce the workload for the police, and has subsequently defended by an Inspector, who said: "The aim of the adult caution scheme is to offer a proportionate response where the offender has admitted the offence." Sorry, but WTF? The idea of justice is that if you break the law you are dealt with. In what way does the system arrive at the conclusion of what is proportionate? As far as I am concerned, I'd have no issue with the offender being given the same treatment as she dished out to Hayley Clayton. I think that would be wonderfully proportionate. I think someone has beaten me to it as for as this being a solution goes - something about an eye for an eye, if I'm not mistaken.
So, as per my opening comment, don't expect justice in the UK. The system is fucked, and there is great bitterness growing daily from so many quarters that it is no wonder the police get no support in many instances. I am amazed how so many people do still come forward to testify (when the police and the CPS do bother to prosecute) and then see offenders get off. The pointlessness is simply awful.
British justice does not really exist any more, there is just a system in place that lacks morality, is inefficient and costly, and leaves everyone bar those who commit crime with a feeling of disappointment. However, travel at 50mph on a dual carriageway that has a 40mph limit and you'll find that there are police enough and resources enough to fine you and add some points to your licence. Priorities are piss poor now.
Where is The Equalizer when you need him, eh?
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