Sussex Police in bed with the gangsters.
Al Capone | 12.11.2012 10:31
Police corruption in Sussex goes to new heights. The elections for Police and CXrime Commissioner are taking place this week. Will the person appointed be able to stand up to the problems?
Sussex includes areas as Brighton and Hove, as well as other places where gangsters are in control. There are rich pickings for the criminals with drugs, illegal alcohol sales, people trafficking and prostitution.
The fact is that in areas as Brighton and Hove, the gangsters run the show. Reports are that "There are 12 Mr Big types in Brighton who are so big that no one can touch them". One of these is Nicholas Hoogstraten, a landord, hotel, pub and club owner, who runs his empire like Chicago in the 1920s.
So you might expect Sussex Police to try and clean up these large scale criminal enterprises. You would be wrong. Not only do they offer protection to the gangsters, they act as enforcers for them.
Anyone who upsets, or threatens, the profits of crime run by the gangsters, finds they have Sussex Plod after them. The innocent who complains in more likely to be charged and arrested than the criminals.
This state of affairs has continued for years. Will whoever is appointed Polic and Crime Commissioner take them on and clean it up?
The fact is that in areas as Brighton and Hove, the gangsters run the show. Reports are that "There are 12 Mr Big types in Brighton who are so big that no one can touch them". One of these is Nicholas Hoogstraten, a landord, hotel, pub and club owner, who runs his empire like Chicago in the 1920s.
So you might expect Sussex Police to try and clean up these large scale criminal enterprises. You would be wrong. Not only do they offer protection to the gangsters, they act as enforcers for them.
Anyone who upsets, or threatens, the profits of crime run by the gangsters, finds they have Sussex Plod after them. The innocent who complains in more likely to be charged and arrested than the criminals.
This state of affairs has continued for years. Will whoever is appointed Polic and Crime Commissioner take them on and clean it up?
Al Capone
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Community policing
12.11.2012 16:58
Isn't that how things really work in the real world? And why in fact central governments are mostly irrelevant and find it incredibly difficult to change people's behaviour...
Which is why they like having police forces... So the polcie forces can force people to follow central governments laws...
Which is why anarchists don't believe in central governments or police forces cos not only don't they work very well but also they cause a load of misery trying to enforce laws that people don't really want or accept...
Such as drug laws for example....
Policing was only invented when the urban poor had grown so large that they started to threaten the rich and needed controlling in a different way so that people could be forced to work in factories or something like that?
observer
hmmm
12.11.2012 18:20
ACAB.
cophater
Glamourisation of the underworld is an exercise in ingenuity
13.11.2012 10:58
THIS IS JUST NAIVE SINCE MANY CRIMINALS SHARE WITH THE WORST COP, WITH THE WORST CAPITALIST AND WITH THE WORST AMONG THE POLITICIANS A MINDSET MAINLY BASED IN QUICK PROFIT AND EXPLOITATION OF THOSE WEAKER THAN THEM.
UNFORTUNATELY WE ARE NOT LIVING THE TIMES OF ROBIN HOOD ANY MORE, and many criminal enterprises, organisations and individuals mimic in their mentality and behaviour the main institutions we are fighting against every day of our lives.
WE MIGHT AS WELL GIVING THIS ISSUE A CAREFUL AND LONG THINK AND BEING VERY SELECTIVE. TRYING TO KNOW EACH CASE WITHIN ITS SPECIFIC CONTEXT BEFORE JUMPING TO ANY CONCLUSSION.
Towards an ingenuity-free and intelligent ANARCHISM.
MOhawk
no offence to our brave boys in blue;) but
14.11.2012 01:29
only some, which pushes drug prices up, making the drug trade more profitable for the few that are left.
As the police crackdown, the supply drops, the price goes up, and the more profits available for those desperate enough to take the risks.
It doesn't matter wether the police are directly or even intentionally, involved in the drugs industry, they are involved, just by virtue of their role as state policy enforcers. But they're not helping ordinary drug dealers, they are helping the elite, the aristocracy of drug dealers, the desperate criminal types.
That's why if we want to get rid of the nasty horrible drug dealers, we must get rid of the policy force. If people want to take stuff thats bad for them, that's a health issue not a crime issue.
anarchist