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App To Hold Police Instantly Accountable In Stop and Search (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A collective of London-based youth clubs and organizations has released an app called Y-Stop to help encourage those involved in unfair police encounters to instantly record and report their experiences. The idea is to 'encourage police accountability' by making it easier for anyone to have a say about what they think may be unjustified or illegal police action. The app allows its user to immediately send audio and video footage of harassment for secure holding with the charities themselves, or with the police directly. It also enables easier communication with lawyers for assistance and advice.
We can't blame just "the government" or "the police" for these problems. The youth involved are to blame, too.
Major UK cities, like major American cities, have a severe problem with youth gangs. This gang culture arose over the last two decades, as rap music and hip hop music which glorifies a criminal, degenerate lifestyle became more popular. We end up with these youth continuously committing heinous crimes, including murder, rape, assault, burglary and peddling narcotics to younger children.
An interesting things has happened, though: the rise of this terrible "gangsta" culture happened in parallel with the rise of what's often called "social justice"!
This has meant that while the thugs have been acting extremely criminally, we've simultaneously seen sheltered academics defend the indefensibly harmful activities of these youth. These academics paint the thugs as the "victims", rather than the perpetrators and criminals that they really are. The youth, of course, aren't dumb and use this to their advantage.
All of this puts the police in a very bad position. In the end, they need to keep crime under control, otherwise they face political and economic consequences. Part of this involves interacting with these youth gangs.
When dealing with criminals in the past, where the criminals didn't have (or take advantage of) the sentiment of "victimhood" surrounding them, the police didn't face scrutiny. But now that academics have wrongly deemed these young thugs to be "good kids who didn't do anything wrong", and the thugs and their parents have used these claims to their benefit, the police are treated as being in the wrong.
If crime is to be prevented, the police will need to deal with these youth who choose to engage in criminal activities. If the youth don't want to face the scrutiny of the police, then they just shouldn't act as known criminals typically act. They shouldn't associate themselves with a culture that's known to be criminal in nature.
Yes, this does mean not wearing baggy clothes like are typically worn by criminal thugs. Yes, this does mean not listening to music that glorifies criminal behavior perpetrated by criminal thugs. Yes, this does mean not talking in a broken dialect of gibberish English that's typically used by criminal thugs.
By associating with a culture that's first and foremost known for its criminality, these youth are going out of their way to make themselves targets of the police. By failing in their social responsibilities not to be criminals, these youth should expect to face frequent interactions with the police, who are of course tasked with stopping criminality.