A More Tempered and Reasoned Police Response

I was glad to see this more thoughtful response to my criticisms of the police.

 

 

http://www.policeoracle.com/news/Local+and+Neighbourhood+Policing/2013/Sep/19/The-Peter-Hitchens-police-bandwagon_70953.html&commentadded=1 (you may need to register)

 

I should point out here that, when I wrote my book on the subject,  I took care to send it to several influential senior police officers, as well as to opinion-formers. I had very little response ( except from the always laudable Jonathan Freedland in the Guardian). In some cases I simply encountered ad hominem abuse (one reviewer has since apologised to me personally for his behaviour).

 

So I think it is quite reasonable or me to state the matter in stark terms, whenever I get the chance, in the hope of getting this very important subject properly and knowledgeably debated. Much of my case ( as in 'The War we Never Fought') is that conventional wisdom and other assumptions commonly made by journalists and others in this discussion are severely mistaken, and do not stand up any examination of the facts.

 

As an example of the less pensive and calm police approach to what I wrote(assuming the author is,  as he says,  a sworn police officer) there is this :

http://ademandeloya.wordpress.com/2013/09/16/my-response-to-peter-hitchens-and-his-asinine-little-article/