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Police Fail To Act On Rape Case Calls?
The BBC reports that police may have failed to act on 2 calls regarding the disgusting rape attack on a 15 year old English schoolgirl which took place on Blacks Road. 2 callers to Stephen Nolan's show on Radio 5 (yes! they gave that twerp his own nationwide show) claimed to have called the police, left their details, and days later haven't been called back.
I'm normally an avid supporter of the PSNI in their job to uphold the rule of law. It's not an easy job, nor do you get much thanks for keeping the population safe, but despite my admiration for the good men and women out there doing their jobs and protecting ordinary folk, if this turns out to be true it is a shocking and disgusting neglect of duty.
I know of an incident where a young man, also from west Belfast, had his motorbike stolen from the back of his house one night and when the police were called they didn't even ask what colour the bike was or come and look at the scene. That's bad. That's an obvious and serious neglect of duty. So what words could you use to describe people who fail to act on a case as horrible and disturbing as a men assaulting 3 teenage boys, while his friend rapes a school girl twice then calls her mum to brag about it?
Follow up:
Not that I condone it but when reports like this come through is it any wonder people turn to "community justice" or paramilitary punishment beatings/shootings/killings. Is that the sort of police service we have now? Has it always been this bad? Or is this the price of IRA appeasement?