Graham Linehan visited by police again.....

We’ve had people selling drugs out of car windows outside our house. We live on a cul-de-sac in a leafy suburb and a police liaison officer came round after about three weeks of us contacting them and told us to just keep logging visits and number plates that we noticed but there wasn’t a lot they could do unless they actually saw it themselves and they don’t have enough resources to send anyone round to patrol the area. We have children as do plenty of others on the road and there are elderly people living alone. Maybe I should try politely criticising the actions of the drug dealers on social media and the police will be round a bit quicker next time to speak to us.

Let them tilt at windmills.

Meanwhile we'll carry on just being women.

Dropping in a barnstorming analysis of Ontological Totalitarianism by Numbers broken down into 30 bullet points by @LadyPrincesexual that @glinner might find relevant to his situation.

21. People refusing to validate your identity may be painful.
22. Something being painful is not conceptually identical to it being a moral harm, structural violence, or an act of oppression.
23. Not getting our needs met is sometimes painful.
24. Sometimes our needs don’t get met because other people also have needs, beliefs, and interests.
25. Thinking you must always have you needs met and refusing to understand why other people may not meet your needs, is narcissistic entitlement.

As ever, I recommend the whole piece.

janeclarejones.com/2018/12/08/ontological-totalitarianism-by-numbers/

I just want to attach a message from a neighbour and friend who was concerned, written on 11th Oct. Maybe I ought to tell Dr Harrumph he smells of elderberries?

Notbad I totally agree. Every time someone makes a misogynistic remark we should be reporting it as threatening, hate speech etc. Every time we feel "literal violence" from something said online. The only reason these people get away with it is because they're the only ones doing it. If everybody did it - and I'd add in every racist, homophobic and xenophobic comment too, because there are a tonne of them - the police would be forced to stop even considering the feelz of one group.

I actually don't want to waste police time, or suggest it, yet I'm not sure how to force the police to respond to complaints like the Dr's by dismissing them until an ACTUAL crime has occurred.

Since the police seem to have so much free time on their hands...

Could they please read the electricity / gas meters for me? They are high up on the wall and I need a ladder.

I've read and re-read Glinner's comments about Harrop. I cannot see the remotest indication that he had any intention of 'contacting' Harrop, much less any sort of 'threat'.

Glinner made a fair comment about Harrop's views. That's what anyone's entitled to do, isn't it? Which 'law' might the police who visited Glinner feel might be invoked here?

It reminds me a bit of my Uni days when we realised our 20-something friend who owned her own property didn't know how to turn the mains water off and hadn't known how to do so in any of our various house shares. When I asked her what she would have done if there were a leak she said "call the police". Oh how we laughed as she realised how silly that sounded.

And fast forward to 2018...

This definitely reduces the public's confidence in the police.

An (woman) officer talked about it impacting their resources recently at a conference. It was publicised in the on-line press.

I'm really confused. Since when was "someone was mean to me on twitter" been a police matter?

Since people started being nasty to men.
Abuse women, threaten rape and their children all you like. No fucks will be given.
Call a man a twat and you can expect a visit.

So abused girls are turned away by the police, women who are stalked told to wait until something happens but Dr Harrumph can arrange for the police to visit someone who was mean to him on tinternet?

The law abiding people of Hartlepool might like to see a policeman, it was recently dubbed by the BBC the town where " the police don't come out."

Adrian Harrop is a very angry man isn't he?

The sheer hatred appears visible on his face. Whereas she just looks like she pities him.

“Log it with 101” is a running MN joke because people seem to think the police will be interested in trivial matters. Well, who’s laughing now? Everyone should log everything, including all the hurty things, because clearly it’s not such a stretch to think some action will be taken

I'd be quite happy to write to the relevant police commissioner on your behalf, @Glinner.

Not only should be told he is wasting police time, it should be acknowledged that he is making the police look like absolute idiots.

Obliterating public faith, which was already in short supply.

But why are the police jumping to react like this?

Who at the top has skin in this game?

Dear Glinner if you are reading this thread, please let us know which police force it was so that we can take action. Remember, the power of MN is behind you

I am so angry about this. Compare with what’s happened to me. I can’t put online the latest development because it involves my children, but for 2 months the police have sat there while a man identifies their schools and invites others to do the same, harasses my husband, publishes his private details, makes untrue malicious allegations designed to damage my family, makes violent threats, makes sexual threats, sexually objectifies and sexually humiliates me and I am having to crowdfund for the legal fees needed to stop this, while the police sit on their backsides.

I am not going to repeat some of the comments here, they are too filthy and disgusting and will trigger victims of sexual assault but the double standards are incredible.

More ammunition for the GMC complaints.

This bloke just can't help himself, can he? He's a walking, talking manifestation of the Duluth wheel.

It bothers me that Harrop is allowed to do this. Surely he could be charged with wasting police time? Imagine if everybody whined to the police when someone said something they didn’t like on Twitter.

I’m also bothered that the police actually visited Glinner. They are already overstretched and no longer come to your house if you’ve been burgled. Why are they prioritising something clearly malicious like this?

The police actually visited him over that tweet? Are you fucking kidding me?

This is madness - you can't get police to attend a fucking burglary, but tweet about Mermaids or the good doctor Harrop, and they're straight over?! Un-fucking-believable.

Solidarity @glinner

Why didn't they just tell Harrop to stop wasting police time?

THIS. It's quite astonishing that the police will respond to a complaint which is evidently vexatious nonsense.

Harrop is a pathetic little knob.

Awaits knock on the door.

So a man calls the police on another man, for defending a trans person against transphobia?