by
Les May
FORGIVE
me for asking,
but is it just possible that Donald Trump has taken control of the
GMP City Centre Twitter page? I
ask this because yesterday the Rochdale Observer had
a story which ran as follows;
Police
say ‘99 percent’ of beggars arrested are addicted to drugs or
alcohol - including one who ‘commuted’ from Rochdale to
Manchester’s Christmas Markets to ‘earn up to £50 an hour.
The
story was based on 3, yes that’s
three,
arrests last Saturday, which hardly seems like a large enough sample
to make any kind of generalisation, so where do
they get figures like 99% and £50 an hour from?
I
thought the times when the
police ‘knowing’
someone is guilty was enough to convince a magistrate were long past,
at least as far as ‘respectable’
folk like you and I are concerned. Such courtesies it seems do not
extend to people who beg.
Perhaps
in the future tweets from GMP can be confined to operational matters,
like warning people about pickpockets, street thieves, traffic
congestion etc. Opinions
are not required and disseminating
them via Twitter seems
to me to be an improper use of police resources.
And
by the way a lot of ‘respectable’
people take drugs and drink too much.
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