Comments on: Police 1-0 Accountability and the MSM

By: Quinn

Quinn — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:30:12 +0000

I guess the point about the CEOP button is not that it can directly do anything to help someone who doesn’t know they are being groomed, but that it can be used by others to raise the alarm about suspicious behaviour before a paedophile gets the chance to speak to a more gullible soul.

That notwithstanding, Alex raises some very good concerns about CEOP in particular, and in this case it has been used as a massive smokescreen by the police to mask their own culpability.

By: Paul Sagar

Paul Sagar — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:29:14 +0000

Alex,

Those are excellent points, and I heartily concur.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:26:40 +0000

Also, can you think of a worse idea than a button on a high-traffic social network site that lets you denounce someone on impulse? There’s no requirement for enough moral commitment to talk to somebody on the phone/walk into a police station/even just go to the police force Web site, and worse, the reports are going to be used for some nebulous “intelligence” purpose. That is to say, rather than being scrutinised as possible evidence of a crime, they’ll be uncritically scarfed up into a huge database.

Further, the huge DB is managed by ACPO, a private sector entity that escapes entirely from supervision by an elected police authority, by Parliament, or even just by Home Office ministerial line management.

And Facebook lets you develop arbitrary code to be executed as Fbook Apps on its systems. The potential for XSS and XSRF attacks doesn’t bear thinking about.

By: Paul Sagar

Paul Sagar — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:46:35 +0000

Peter,

Whilst I completely agree, you do rather sound like you’re on BBC Have Your Say.

lol.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:34:17 +0000

Yeah it’s ridiculous. And the failure to bring charges in the Thomlinson case, when if I went on the street now and did the same thing to an old lady I’d be charged like that, is bloody disgusting. One rule for them, another for us. Fucking shameful.