I would suggest that we are following the US in this. Used to be that construction in the UK was full of people with a bad history. Scaffolders got their rep, because they would employ anyone who was… (View Post)

Good policing is hard. Being ineffective or a jack booted thug is so much easier. (View Post)

Found this on another forum, US context but… “Before I retired we had two construction job openings at my company. We had 200 people put in for them. First was a drug test. That eliminated about half… (View Post)

Zero tolerance is stupid because you end up with arresting people for all kinds of minor stuff that shouldn’t be a crime. “Broken Windows” policing involves quite a bit of discretion, incidently. In … (View Post)

Given the legal protections for informing and the associated deals, this is one thing that could conceivably *not* leaked. Any criminal evidence would have leaked long ago. If I had a pound for every… (View Post)