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Good old-fashioned proactive policing

qwerty said:
Do you know what pro-active means? It means stopping drink drivers before they cause an accident, rather than turning up to an accident, breathalysing the driver and saying "Oh yeah, he's 5 times the limit...that's probably why he crashed".
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By your definition banning alcohol would be classed as pro active. It's not pro active policing if it is inconveniencing all innocent people passing in such a manner. Searching everyone walking down a high street would be proactive in cutting down knife crime but is it pro active policing?

That's draconian policing worthy of a police state, and is not pro anything - if anything it's a step back.


As I said previously it wasn't disruptive at all. Your use of the term 'road block' implies the police were being aggressive. They were all very friendly, and if nothing else it meant they were visible to the tax payers paying their wages.


Also, I bet no-one got mugged/stabbed/burgled on that street while they were out there!
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Stopping all cars is a road block. A road block is not an unfriendly paramilitary style closure of a road. It is simply stopping every car passing a certain route and should be an act used in the most troubled times (Northern Ireland, war zones, etc) - not a Sunday night in Chigwell.
 
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Vanilla said:
By your definition banning alcohol would be classed as pro active. It's not pro active policing if it is inconveniencing all innocent people passing in such a manner. Searching everyone walking down a high street would be proactive in cutting down knife crime but is it pro active policing?

That's draconian policing worthy of a police state, and is not pro anything - if anything it's a step back.
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Well that's my question answered - you don't know what pro-active means! :D
 
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