From: billy@anon.com 
  
 "Mark Goodge"  wrote in message 
 news:2p4jbk141lh6iojm6ta3cs0ed0agbu5tk2@4ax.com... 
  
 > The modern preference to arrest first, and question later, seems 
 > to me to be a suboptimal use of police resources as well as 
 > unnecessarily melodramatic. 
 > 
  
 Or quite possibly, necessarily melodramatic; so as to impress the 
 taxpayers, make the news headlines, and send a message. 
  
 Only as per usual, it turned out to be the wrong message. 
  
 The only wonder is they didn't tape off the whole of the 
 arrivals area, for the operation. 
  
 While at a wild guess if they'd only deployed the one officer, 
 the other four would have simply stayed in the rest room 
 playing cards or watching TV. Rather than making their show 
 of strength, on the News. 
  
  
  
 bb 
  
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