Peter Hitchens

@ClarkeMicah ↗

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@starbuck24601. There have numerous calls for more pay, disguised as protests against 'budget cuts' & indistinguishable from other public sector unions.Please point me to an organised police protest against the closure of police stations or withdrawal of regular foot patrol. — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah There have been voluminous protestations about the cuts and their effects from the Police. They have n… https://t.co/JBgRwoRsRN

Posted Sept. 18, 2022

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes .@colinkeating19., The police were already being run by sociologists and trained to be paramilitary social workers, as long ago as 1987. The revolution which destroyed policing took place in the 1960s. See my 2004 book, The Abolition of Liberty . https://t.co/QM3haMLMuq — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah @UKPolicePensUtd This was a phrase when I joined (1987). It was explained to me this way: the social n… https://t.co/zHJTTLTH7A

Posted Sept. 18, 2022

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Piffle, @starbuck24601. In the 1960s the police were responsible for security of commercial premises, parking enforcement and prosecution, all major tasks now farmed out to huge private companies or giant state bureaucracies. — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah They certainly did not have more duties. In the 1960's the world was an immeasurably different place a… https://t.co/l7gNMs5MPF

Posted Sept. 18, 2022