From: jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu 
  
 On 2025-09-07, Jethro_uk  wrote: 
 > On Sun, 07 Sep 2025 03:15:58 +0000, Jon Ribbens wrote: 
 >> On 2025-09-06, Jethro_uk  wrote: 
 >>> On Sat, 06 Sep 2025 18:46:41 +0000, Jon Ribbens wrote: 
 >>>> I'm sorry if you find it inconvenient, but Linehan's activities are 
 >>>> affecting a great many more people a great deal more than your 
 >>>> lawnmower thief. 
 >>> 
 >>> Yes. 
 >>> 
 >>> But once again, we return to a police chief wailing he cannot chose 
 >>> which laws to apply. All laws have to  be upheld. 
 >>> 
 >>> You aren't suggesting he was wrong, are you. Because no one challenged 
 >>> him in the press. 
 >> 
 >> Unless the police are given 100% of all funding they ever request 
 >> however, they're going to have to prioritise some matters over others. 
 > 
 > But they don't get that choice do they ? Because the Met Police Chief was 
 > crystal clear that they have to investigate all crime with no discretion. 
 > 
 > This is why he went into print to call for laws to be changed. 
 > 
 > And whilst it is fashionable to attack people for incompetence, surely 
 > the Met Police Chief knows how the law works better than you, or I ? 
  
 I don't think you've even read his statement, because what you say above 
 bears very little resemblance whatsoever to what he said. 
  
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