Bobby with the hump

Volunteer police officer in London 🚔 Formerly third sector, LLM human rights law. Scuba diver 🐡 Full-time bean counter 🧮

[Bobby with the hump @CamelCop]

@gmhales I wish the children's commissioner would look into why black children are disproportionately coming into contact with police in the first place. Instead, it's another stop and search analysis in a vacuum, comparing search rates to general population demographics yet again

[Bobby with the hump @CamelCop]

@gmhales Especially given the huge disparity in volume - most response cops will record dozens of NCDs for every NCHI

[Bobby with the hump @CamelCop]

@Outcome_Code_14 Looks like Dorset Police are using stats on disproportionality by reference to general population rather than ppl in custody, coming to police notice, suspected offenders etc & not controlling for offence types. A tactic commonly used by activists to exaggerate disproportionality

[Bobby with the hump @CamelCop]

@HannahAlOthman https://t.co/rUsFMdfc3M

[Bobby with the hump @CamelCop]

@gmhales Why do these stats always refer to rates of force/searches/deaths by reference to the general population, rather than instances of police contact or number of detentions in custody? Is it intentional do you think? Is that considered standard or poor practice for statisticians?

[Bobby with the hump @CamelCop]

@legalclaret Also the suggestion that police should have aimed elsewhere (torso, abdomen, arm, leg). Impracticalities aside, all of those are still lethal force. Saying 'I used lethal force but didn't think it was necessary to take a critical mass shot' is in fact murder.

[Bobby with the hump @CamelCop]

@legalclaret This winds me up no end. A BLM activist was on LBC yesterday suggesting that the prosecution conspired/was intentionally set up to fail by charging murder instead of 'manslaughter' so he could get away with it

[Bobby with the hump @CamelCop]

@ItsWeary Good grief, this was the officer that went 'viral' a couple of years ago... https://t.co/qOglwcBSo4

[Bobby with the hump @CamelCop]

@legalclaret @muttonshunter To what extent should I put myself at risk in order to use less/mininum force? Sure, it may not be physically necessary to handcuff someone suspected of having a weapon, but it would clearly be necessary to do so in order to achieve the objective safely.

[Bobby with the hump @CamelCop]

@legalclaret @muttonshunter It's interesting how College of Policing guidance refers to the 'mininum' amount of force required to achieve an objective. I feel this should be viewed in the context of how much personal risk officers are expected to take to achieve an objective?

[Bobby with the hump @CamelCop]

People in wheelchairs aren't allowed to travel according to JSO

[Just Stop Oil @JustStop_Oil]

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[Bobby with the hump @CamelCop]

@sherlock_comms 🙋 "Careful Sir, the floor's wet"

🤡 "But there's no wet floor sign so how can the floor be wet?"

*CRASH*

🤦

[Bobby with the hump @CamelCop]

@legalclaret Conventional restraint techniques are pretty much ineffective against anyone who isn't wholly compliant with arms outstretched saying "It's a fair cop guv".

In the real world it usually ends up looking a bit scrappy...

[Bobby with the hump @CamelCop]

@echetus Agree with so much of the article

People advocating decriminalisation as a means to eliminate violent drug supply chains really think that OCGs will just close up shop and call it a day, rather than fight even more ruthlessly for diminished market share and enter new markets

[Bobby with the hump @CamelCop]

@medwaymakem @gmhales No distractions allowed in our local custody, no phones, reading, or even working on your laptop. You just have to sit there and watch them for 8+ hours

[Bobby with the hump @CamelCop]

@legalclaret @mrjamesob Very reductive commentary on LBC, with @ShelaghFogarty quoting these cherry-picked examples without any knowledge of the aggravating/mitigating factors which the judge considered.

https://t.co/0uxYcH9eL4

[Media Tell The Truth XR @TTTMediaXR]

This is a thread looking at sentences handed down by Judge Christopher Hehir. 🧵

[Bobby with the hump @CamelCop]

@BigSmokeSheriff "Feature writer @ Guardian", that tracks....

[Bobby with the hump @CamelCop]

@Asterisk2302 @legalclaret @__theskipper__ "Not in the public interest"

[Bobby with the hump @CamelCop]

@legalclaret @__theskipper__ Reading the article I don't think the court has actually issued a judgment yet... "High Court told" by counsel for the appellants

[Bobby with the hump @CamelCop]

@gmhales Very often with these articles I find what they don't say is more informative than what they do say