It would seem that Constable Savage was ahead of his time. You really can be arrested for looking at someone in a funny way.
I’m sure that Detective Superintendent Sarah White meant well when she said that men who stare at women on trains (it’s very rarely the other way around) are ‘starting to show behaviours that are unhealthy’.
I have wholeheartedly supported Transport for London’s ongoing initiative to stamp out sexual harassment on public transport. Their campaign, launched last October, aims to protect women from a litany of horrors, including up-skirting, cat-calling, touching and flashing. All good and necessary.
But looking at someone? Really?
Yup, that is what the modern police farce is doing. Arresting people for the way they are looking… Thought crime is here.
‘We want to know about that staring because that is the behaviour that suggests to me that someone is thinking about a sexual behaviour that supports that staring. We will record them as crimes and we will investigate them — and we have had successful prosecutions in that field.’
DS White is objectively evil and so is the force that employs her.
It was I believe the British Transport Police who went hell for leather to prosecute a man who had put up stickers criticising Islamic extremism, its fellow travellers and those who by sins of omission create the conditions for Islamic extremism to grow. See https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/probe-launched-over-racist-mock-pokemon-stickers-featuring-sadiq-khan-found-in-tube-station-a3405196.html As an aside this guy got a more heavy sentence, a suspended prison one, than a Muslim got for putting up anti gay stickers who was disposed of by way of a £100 fine.
The BTP is riddled with both political officers and officers who love to behave in a political way, provided that it’s the ‘correct’ type of politics of course. Therefore I’m not at all surprised to see a senior officer of the BTP involved in what is a plainly politically influenced campaign to outlaw staring.
I used to travel on the Tube a great deal and lots of people give the appearance of staring when it’s most likely that they are not and are just zoning out. I’m tempted to agree with your view that this is somewhat evil.
This detective is not only trying to make something out of nothing but also clearly illustrating just how crap and out of touch our police forces have become.
The BTP is where you go if you’re too thick for the Met Police…
Not quite. The British Transport Police was where you were sent if you were too thick for the Met Police and you weren’t a strapping six footer from the rough end of the trench.
If you were thick as two short planks but enjoyed a bit of physical violence (especially against the melanin rich), then they’d send you to the Special Patrol Group now rather pleasantly called the Territorial Support Group.
Any decent society would recognise them as paramilitary police, but presumably our outgoing Commissioner Cressida Dick, killer of Brazilian electricians, has poor eyesight as well as poor…everything else.
The BTP police are generally regarded in the rail industry as being fit for managing church fetes and precious little else.
Not even sure they could manage that. Most of them couldn’t count to twenty without taking off their socks.
Silence is violence…
Staring is violence…
Soon breathing will be violence too.
Not caring is the greatest violence of all.
Put me down for a big dollop.
@FH211
“As an aside this guy got a more heavy sentence, a suspended prison one, than a Muslim got for putting up anti gay stickers who was disposed of by way of a £100 fine”
Worse: Child rapers being talked to, case closed
Mark Steyn: Britain is the land where everything is policed except crime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rqW7Hi86gU
It’s pretty difficult to keep your eyeballs under control at the gym. Too many toned arses in lycra. Saturday morning there are the kids swimming lessons so there are lots of parents on the poolside. The other week a hottie in a miniscule bikini comes out of the ladies locker room and walks past a row of dads. They looked like one of those time lapse films of flowers tracking the sun.
That’s certainly not misogyny, more like philogyny.