UK Police Harrass Youths英国警方harrass青年
By通过 Paul Lewis 保罗刘易斯 | The police surveillance team had spotted their target: a 12-year-old boy with freckles and ginger hair. |警方监视小组发现他们的目标：一个12岁的男孩与雀斑和生姜的头发。 He was known to police for nuisance behaviour.他被称为警方的滋扰行为。 They watched as he walked along a path with friends in the distance, before disappearing down a side street.他们观看了，因为他走过的道路，与朋友们的距离，然后才消失了方街。
When the four boys emerged from the estate’s maze of alleyways, the patrol car was waiting.当四名男童出现了从地产的迷宫小巷，一辆巡逻车正在等待。 “Is this that operation, sir?” said one boy. “这是运作，主席先生” ？说，一名男童。 “I don’t want to be on camera.” He already was. “我不想被在镜头前” ，他已经是。
Operation Leopard is the latest weapon in the fight against antisocial behaviour to receive government backing.运作豹则是最新的武器，打击反社会行为，以获得政府的支持。 Pioneered by officers in Essex policing difficult estates, it deploys forward intelligence teams (FITs) - units trained to gather evidence at foxhunts, protests and football matches - in areas suffering from crime.开创的人员在埃塞克斯治安难以屋，它部署了情报队（适合） -单位训练，搜集证据，在f oxhunts，抗议和足球比赛-在地区遭受犯罪行为。
FIT officers target a hit list of individuals who are “known to police”, and subject them to repeated surveillance.适合人员的目标，一击中的个人名单谁是“众所周知的警察” ，使他们受到反复侦察。 Last week the Guardian was given unprecedented access to the latest operation on the Five Links estate in Laindon, near Basildon.上周监护人给予了前所未有的获取最新的运作对5链接地产在laindon ，近巴塞尔顿。
For civil rights groups, the operation is an Orwellian technique that persecutes individuals who have committed no crime.为公民权利的团体，运作是一个奥威尔技术，谁迫害的个人有没有犯罪。 But for police, the “in your face” approach works and, unlike covert surveillance, it requires no special authorisation.但对于警方， “在你的脸”的做法，工程和，不像秘密监察的，它并不需要特别的授权。
Essex police claim there has been a “100%” drop in crime on target estates during recent operations.艾塞克斯警方声称有一个“ 100 ％ ”下降，犯罪对屋的目标，在最近的行动。 Their surveys indicate the so-called “harass a youth” strategy is popular in the community.他们的调查显示，这个所谓的“骚扰青年”的策略，是流行在社会上。
Before the previous Operation Leopard, 27.8% of residents on the estate told police they had recently witnessed crime or antisocial behaviour.之前，前运作豹， 27.8 ％的居民对屋告诉警方，他们最近曾目击犯罪或反社会行为。 In the weeks after the operation, that dropped to 8.5%.在数周后的运作，即下降到8.5 ％ 。
Home Office support for the tactic comes as confidence in asbos once the government’s flagship tool for combating antisocial behaviour has disintegrated.家庭办公室支持的策略，来作为的信心asbos一旦政府的旗舰工具，打击反社会行为的土崩瓦解。 Earlier this month the government released figures to show use of the orders had dropped by 34%.本月初，政府公布的数字显示，使用该命令已下降了34 ％ 。
In a speech this month widely received as marking the decline of the asbo, the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, singled out the Essex force’s initiative for praise.在一次讲话中本月广泛收到的标记下降的asbo ，民政司， jacqui史密斯，挑出了埃塞克斯部队的倡议，为赞誉。 “Operation Leopard is exactly the sort of intensive policing that can bring persistent offenders to their senses,” she said. “运作豹正是这类密集的治安能够带来持久性罪犯，以理智， ”她说。 “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.” “它造成的环境下，那些负责的反社会行为已没有回旋余地，并没有藏身之，而表是打开的罪犯，使那些谁骚扰我们的社区，本身harried和骚扰” 。
Essex police, who have scheduled 12 more operations this year, have since been approached by police forces across Britain for information on their techniques.艾塞克斯警方，谁也定于12更多行动，今年以来，一直有接触，警察部队的整个英国的信息对他们的技巧。
Troublemakers 滋事分子
Last week’s three-day operation began with officers hunched over laminated mugshots of 14 “targets” on the Five Links estate.上星期的为期3天的行动开始与人员hunched超过叠层mugshots 14日的“目标”就五个环节地产。 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.警长西蒙马赛，在负责邻里治安，并向客人介绍了两个社区的支持人员，两个专门的治安官和一组适当的人员对个人，他被确定为麻烦制造者。 All were male, and most were under 18.全部为男性，大部分人未满18岁。 One was just 11.一只是11 。 Between them they had convictions for robbery, battery, criminal damage and carrying weapons.它们之间，他们已被定罪，抢劫，电池，刑事毁坏及携带武器。
Mathias explained that officers would work in shifts, roaming the estate in search of the targets.马赛解释说，人员会轮班工作，漫游地产在搜索的目标。 Occasionally, he said, they should visit the targets’ homes.偶尔，他说，他们应该访问的目标'的家园。 Officers were instructed to film “any individuals” seen associating with them.人员的指示，电影“任何个人”看到缔与他们。 All footage would be kept for “evidence and intelligence” purposes.所有的画面将保持为“证据和情报”的目的。 “We’re going to be more proactive, more intrusive,” said Mathias. “我们将更加主动，更加侵扰，说： ”马赛。 “But it’s going to all be in the public domain, and all in the interests of preventing crime and antisocial behaviour.” “但是现在都在公共领域，并在所有的利益，预防犯罪和反社会行为” 。
Nicknamed Alcatraz because of its fortress-like appearance, the Five Links estate has high levels of crime.绰号的arukatorazu因为它的堡垒般的外形，五个环节地产有高水平的犯罪。 It is also notoriously hard to police when confronted, suspects easily melt into a web of backstreets that police call “the rat run”.这亦是最难向警方当面对，嫌疑人很容易变成泡影网backstreets ，警方所称的“老鼠跑” 。
During the first afternoon, two youths were reported on the roof of a school and, after a chase, were caught.在首日下午，两名青年被报道，在屋顶上的一所学校，后一大通，被发现。 They were in a group filmed earlier in the day for associating with a target.他们在一组拍摄当天早些时候，为缔合同一个目标。 “It shows that we’re stopping the right people,” said Mathias. “它表明我们正在停车的权利人，说： ”马赛。
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.虽然人员声称的目标，可以选择不拍，没有那些停在在场的监护人左右， 15名嫌犯和同伙既然选择。
“It winds me up. “风箱。 I can’t go nowhere without them following me,” said Michael, 18, after what he said was his fourth stop.我不能去无处没有他们跟踪我，说： “迈克尔， 18 ，后他说的是他的第四站。 “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.” “我回来工作并尽快正如我失控的前列，他们只是考虑的照片，我立刻缩放，在对所有的模式我已经得到在我的头发” 。
Michael’s mother complained to police that he was being harassed.迈克尔的母亲向警方抱怨他被骚扰。 “You can understand the parents,” an FIT officer remarked later. “你能理解父母， ”一个合适的主任说过，稍后。 “But, you know: tough. “但是，您是否知道：强硬。 You won’t control them we will.”您将无法控制他们，我们会“ 。
By the third day the group actively began to evade police.由第三天，该集团积极开始，以逃避警方。 They spent time indoors, playing computer games, or ventured off the estate on to a nearby patch of grass to play football.他们花时间在室内，玩电脑游戏，或冒险小康屋就到附近的一块草地踢球。 Some lifted their hoods every time they saw a patrol car.一些解除他们的头套每一次他们看到巡逻车。
Lee, 19, said he had been stigmatised.李， 19日表示，他已耻辱。 “I admit I was a little shit back in the past, but who ain’t?” he said. “我承认我是一个小shit外围回，在过去，但谁不是？ ”他说。 “I’ve grown up now I’m chilled these days. “我已经长大了我现在的冰鲜这些天。 The old bill don’t let us move on.旧的条例草案，不要让我们的举动。 They keep on classing us as criminals.”他们不断对分级我们当作罪犯“ 。
For civil rights groups, which have complained about Operation Leopard, this is precisely the problem.为民权团体，其中有抱怨的运作豹，这正是问题。 Some activists have launched a counterattack, subjecting FIT officers to surveillance.一些活跃分子发起了反击，服从合适的人员监视。 Turning their own cameras on FIT, activists have started posting officers’ names, faces and badge numbers online.谈到自己的相机就适合，积极分子已开始张贴人员的姓名，所面临的徽章和号码在线。
Adversarial 对立
Back at the station, the officers logged on to one of the websites, Fitwatch, and vented their frustration at “revenge attacks”.回在车站，海关人员登录到其中一个网站上， fitwatch ，和发泄他们的挫折感，在“报复性袭击” 。 One said being filmed felt “unnerving”.一说，被拍摄，感到“不安” 。
During patrols the adversarial nature of what one FIT officer called “the hunt” was on show.在巡逻抗辩的性质是什么一个合适的人员被称为“狩猎”是对显示。 Some officers developed derogatory nicknames for the teenagers they were stopping.一些发达国家贬义人员昵称为青少年，他们停车。 But when talking to their teenage targets, the officers strove to build a rapport.但在谈到他们十几岁的目标中，海关人员力图建立一个融洽。 They joked about the situation, and told the teenagers to rest assured they had done “nothing wrong”.他们开玩笑的有关情况，并告诉青少年放心，他们做了“并无不妥” 。
Sergeant Gavin Brook, who helped devise Operation Leopard in January, was the only FIT officer who agreed to be named.警长加文溪，谁帮助制订行动豹今年1月，是唯一合适的人员谁同意命名。 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.”他承认有公民自由的影响，但他说： “你必须衡量造成了一些烦扰至12或14的青少年，对2000年或3000居民的生活得到改善” 。
Many Five Links residents backed Brook’s argument, saying any initiative that put large numbers of police on the street would deter nuisance behaviour.许多居民5链接后盾，不容的说法，说的任何倡议付诸表决，大批警察在街上将阻止滋扰行为。 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.但其他人，尤其是长期居民的时间，被怀疑它工作时，相机被关闭，或认为该方法会令青少年更敌视。
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Pathetic fucking bunch of cunts.可怜他妈的一群cunts 。 What are you, cops or commando babysitters?什么是你，警察或突击队保母？