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Νεολαίες Harrass βρετανικής αστυνομίας
Παρασκευή, 30η Μαΐου 2008
Όταν τα τέσσερα αγόρια προέκυψαν από το λαβύρινθο του κτήματος των στενωπών, το περιπολικό αυτοκίνητο περίμενε. «Είναι αυτό εκείνη η λειτουργία, ο Sir;» εν λόγω ένα αγόρι. «Δεν θέλω να είμαι στη φωτογραφική μηχανή.» Ήταν ήδη. Leopard λειτουργίας είναι το πιό πρόσφατο όπλο στην πάλη ενάντια στην αντικοινωνική συμπεριφορά για να λάβει την κυβερνητική υποστήριξη. Καινοτομημένο από τους ανώτερους υπαλλήλους σε Essex που αστυνομεύουν τα δύσκολα κτήματα, επεκτείνει τις μπροστινές ομάδες νοημοσύνης (τακτοποιήσεις) - μονάδες που εκπαιδεύονται για να συγκεντρώσουν τα στοιχεία στα foxhunts, τις διαμαρτυρίες και τους αγώνες ποδοσφαίρου - στις περιοχές που πάσχουν από το έγκλημα. Οι ΚΑΤΑΛΛΗΛΟΙ ανώτεροι υπάλληλοι στοχεύουν σε έναν κατάλογο χτυπήματος ατόμων που είναι «γνωστά για να αστυνομεύουν», και να τους υποβάλλουν στην επαναλαμβανόμενη επιτήρηση. Την προηγούμενη εβδομάδα στο φύλακα δόθηκε η πρωτοφανής πρόσβαση στην πιό πρόσφατη λειτουργία στο κτήμα πέντε συνδέσεων σε Laindon, κοντά σε Basildon. Για τις ομάδες αστικών δικαιωμάτων, η λειτουργία είναι μια τεχνική Orwellian που διώκει τα άτομα που δεν έχουν διαπράξει κανένα έγκλημα. Αλλά για την αστυνομία, η προσέγγιση «του προσώπου σας» λειτουργεί και, αντίθετα από τη συγκεκαλυμμένη επιτήρηση, δεν απαιτεί καμία πρόσθετη έγκριση. Αξίωση αστυνομίας Essex έχει υπάρξει μια πτώση «100%» στο έγκλημα στα κτήματα στόχων κατά τη διάρκεια των πρόσφατων διαδικασιών. Οι έρευνές τους δείχνουν ότι η αποκαλούμενη στρατηγική «παρενοχλήστε μιας νεολαίας» είναι δημοφιλής στην κοινότητα. Πριν από προηγούμενο Leopard λειτουργίας, 27.8% των κατοίκων στο κτήμα είπε στην αστυνομία που είχαν βεβαιώσει πρόσφατα το έγκλημα ή την αντικοινωνική συμπεριφορά. Στις εβδομάδες μετά από τη λειτουργία, αυτή που πέφτουν σε 8.5%. Η υποστήριξη Υπουργείων Εσωτερικών για την τακτική έρχεται ως εμπιστοσύνη στα asbos μόλις αποσυνθέσει το εργαλείο κυβερνητικών ναυαρχίδων για την αντικοινωνική συμπεριφορά. Νωρίτερα αυτό το μήνα η κυβέρνηση δημόσιευσε τους αριθμούς για να παρουσιάσει ότι η χρήση των διαταγών είχε μειωθεί κατά 34%. Σε μια ομιλία αυτό το μήνα ευρέως λαμβανόμενη όπως χαρακτηρίζοντας την πτώση του asbo, ο Υπουργός Εσωτερικών, Jacqui Smith, επέλεξε την πρωτοβουλία της δύναμης Essex για τον έπαινο. «Leopard λειτουργίας είναι ακριβώς το είδος της εντατικής αστυνόμευσης που μπορεί να φέρει τους επίμονους παραβάτες στις αισθήσεις τους,» αυτή είπε. “It creates an environment where those responsible for antisocial behaviour have no room for manoeuvre and nowhere to hide, where the tables are turned on offenders so that those who harass our communities are themselves harried and harassed.” Essex police, who have scheduled 12 more operations this year, have since been approached by police forces across Britain for information on their techniques. Troublemakers Last week’s three-day operation began with officers hunched over laminated mugshots of 14 “targets” on the Five Links estate. Sergeant Simon Mathias, in charge of neighbourhood policing, briefed two community support officers, two special constables and a team of FIT officers on the individuals he had identified as troublemakers. All were male, and most were under 18. One was just 11. Between them they had convictions for robbery, battery, criminal damage and carrying weapons. Mathias explained that officers would work in shifts, roaming the estate in search of the targets. Occasionally, he said, they should visit the targets’ homes. Officers were instructed to film “any individuals” seen associating with them. All footage would be kept for “evidence and intelligence” purposes. “We’re going to be more proactive, more intrusive,” said Mathias. “But it’s going to all be in the public domain, and all in the interests of preventing crime and antisocial behaviour.” Nicknamed Alcatraz because of its fortress-like appearance, the Five Links estate has high levels of crime. It is also notoriously hard to police when confronted, suspects easily melt into a web of backstreets that police call “the rat run”. During the first afternoon, two youths were reported on the roof of a school and, after a chase, were caught. They were in a group filmed earlier in the day for associating with a target. “It shows that we’re stopping the right people,” said Mathias. Although officers claimed targets could choose not to be filmed, none of those stopped in the presence of the Guardian around 15 suspects and associates were given that choice. “It winds me up. I can’t go nowhere without them following me,” said Michael, 18, after what he said was his fourth stop. “I got back from work and as soon as I got out the van they were just taking photos of me straight away zooming in on all the patterns I’ve got in my hair.” Michael’s mother complained to police that he was being harassed. “You can understand the parents,” an FIT officer remarked later. “But, you know: tough. You won’t control them we will.” By the third day the group actively began to evade police. They spent time indoors, playing computer games, or ventured off the estate on to a nearby patch of grass to play football. Some lifted their hoods every time they saw a patrol car. Lee, 19, said he had been stigmatised. “I admit I was a little shit back in the past, but who ain’t?” he said. “I’ve grown up now I’m chilled these days. The old bill don’t let us move on. They keep on classing us as criminals.” For civil rights groups, which have complained about Operation Leopard, this is precisely the problem. Some activists have launched a counterattack, subjecting FIT officers to surveillance. Turning their own cameras on FIT, activists have started posting officers’ names, faces and badge numbers online. Adversarial Back at the station, the officers logged on to one of the websites, Fitwatch, and vented their frustration at “revenge attacks”. One said being filmed felt “unnerving”. During patrols the adversarial nature of what one FIT officer called “the hunt” was on show. Some officers developed derogatory nicknames for the teenagers they were stopping. But when talking to their teenage targets, the officers strove to build a rapport. They joked about the situation, and told the teenagers to rest assured they had done “nothing wrong”. Sergeant Gavin Brook, who helped devise Operation Leopard in January, was the only FIT officer who agreed to be named. He acknowledged there were civil liberty implications, but added: “You have to weigh up causing a bit of annoyance to 12 or 14 youths, against the 2,000 or 3,000 residents whose lives have been improved.” Many Five Links residents backed Brook’s argument, saying any initiative that put large numbers of police on the street would deter nuisance behaviour. But others, particularly long-time residents, were sceptical about it working when the cameras were off, or felt the method would make teenagers more hostile. 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Pathetic fucking bunch of cunts. What are you, cops or commando babysitters?