A Tangled Web

Jerusalem?



What on earth is happening to our major cities? Now I'm not some old-fashioned sage who likes to pretend that everything of yesteryear was better than the era in which we now find ourselves, but at least people could walk home pretty safe in the knowledge they would actually reach their own front doors.



I draw your attention to the savage murder of 14 year-old Nottingham schoolgirl, Danielle Beccan. She was gunned down on her way home from the city's famous Goose Fair. Although elements of the supine television news have been reluctant to point the finger of blame, the Mail on Sunday speculated with a large degree of certainty that Danielle was attacked in a case of mistaken identity, as internecine wars between Nottingham's Yardies and Asian gangs reach new heights. Yes that's right,' Asian gangs and Yardies': two localised consequences of a namby-pamby approach to tackling the scourge of ethnic-orientated crime.



It doesn't take a genius to work out why crime amongst these groups has soared. Police have been increasingly hamstrung by political correctness where ethnic minority transgression is concerned. I know from the experience of the aftermath of the Bradford riots that Asians had to be practically indulged in nothing less severe than disembowelling passers-by in order for the police to come and investigate. In the long summer of 2001 where the city was literally a tinderbox, the police were nowhere to be seen.



In the aftermath of the ill-conceived MacPherson Report, hard working police forces the length and breadth of Britain were stereotypically branded 'institutionally racist' in an effort to placate the more radical, publicity-seeking elements of minority communities. Since then police officers have been loath to even look in the general direction of a black or Asian individual, lest they be hauled before their superiors for a drubbing about their 'racist inclinations'. And what has been the result? I'll tell you - the systematic encroachment of fear and despair afflicting decent people of all creeds and colours. Maybe in the light of the brutal slaying of Miss Beccan, the ruling authorities might let the police get on with tackling all manner of criminality, instead of burdening them with sociological stigmas and operational correctness.