Comments on The Pensive Quill: Pushing Back Regressive Policing

Westie: Your last comment shows that you are hardl...

2009-09-12T13:10:36.136+01:00

Westie: Your last comment shows that you are hardly insular,from my point of view. You have it exact that police deficits are seldom if ever the odd bad apple. Police, like prisons are social organizations which are extremely purposeful and can be interpreted as the will of the most powerful element in which ever culture they are functioning in. The greatest danger in them both, in my

Uilodomhnaill Agree that policing throws up the s...

2009-09-12T10:02:36.992+01:00

Uilodomhnaill

Agree that policing throws up the same problems and issues the world over, but I'm not really too interested in the world over to be honest. Call me insular or parochial or many other things but I can only go on experience of the past and concern for the future in Ireland.

What we all experienced in the North during the seventies and eighties was anyhing

Westie: Unless the Eastern Six are on the moon,po...

2009-09-11T02:06:09.269+01:00

Westie: Unless the Eastern Six are on the moon,policing is not nearly so complex as one might think. Mostly the same people aspire to be coppers everywhere. I've known some subversives to sneak in successfully,but in general, the police are the enforcers of real power in any culture,from tribal to modern. Unless one believes that real power there will "devolve"---that would be

Larry Just catchn up with the site after a week o...

2009-09-10T21:37:31.123+01:00

Larry

Just catchn up with the site after a week or two. Busy man!

Policing is a very difficult issue in general (not just in Ireland), and like most things that are difficult and complex, it takes a while to change.

I personally think that Policing has changed in the North, I think Patton got that ball rolling and whilst I totally agree that it is far from perfect

Doc: With respect,just finished your book and Mol...

2009-09-03T01:16:43.298+01:00

Doc: With respect,just finished your book and Moloney's,"Paisley". Up to speed now,thank you for your patience. Even the Pigs have a pecking order,eh? Best

Anthony: Please consider and critique this analysi...

2009-09-02T01:33:18.561+01:00

Anthony: Please consider and critique this analysis. In most cultures the police are of the particular culture-neither more nor less progressive than it is,except that their job is to enforce law which makes them most often in conflict with the people with whom they come in contact. The northeastern six counties of Eire have a significant part of their culture which considers it valid to

Just read your piece in Republican News-want you t...

2009-09-01T01:25:17.176+01:00

Just read your piece in Republican News-want you to know that I think it beyond reason to classify you as a felon and these 600 barbarians as ?????

Progressive Policing is pure doublespeak,in my exp...

2009-08-29T18:24:23.622+01:00

Progressive Policing is pure doublespeak,in my experience! All policing winds up to be regressive even with the best of intentions.

Not overly familiar with Suzanne Breen but the imp...

2009-08-29T13:57:40.078+01:00

Not overly familiar with Suzanne Breen but the impression I get from this case with the RIRA source is that her position reminded me a little of the Patsy Mc Cardle [journalist] one with the Provos.."this is Patsy Mc Cardle for Downtown Radio in S.Armagh somewhere near the border-and there's a big bomb just gone off,or it will do any second." I think this is what was getting on the

nothing funny to say about this piece Anthony, rea...

2009-08-29T12:36:41.174+01:00

nothing funny to say about this piece Anthony, real scary shit,and I fear there may be worse to come yet.Marty F,p,s.,mind you I saw a picture in a brit fort once and I kinda stole the image as my own, it showed a wee mouse looking skyward and a huge evil looking eagle with outstretched talons was about to snatch the wee fella and what was the wee mouse doing yip he was giving the eagle a

'policing' during the 'reign of the Pr...

2009-08-29T01:55:14.434+01:00

'policing' during the 'reign of the Provie's' often took the form of 6 inch nails and 6-packs....surely we are in a much better place now (if even only on a 'civil administration' level)??? I think that 'policing' at a community level should not be politicized ....maybe??? The point was always made that even so-called 'top-republicans' had to make