A senior policewoman said this week that the force should refocus on ‘core policing’ and prioritise burglary and violent crime.
Hardly a controversial remark, you might think, with violent crime, especially youth stabbings, on the rise and fewer and fewer burglaries successfully investigated.
But she went on to say that to achieve this, the police should not be distracted by ‘desirable and deserving issues’ such as investigating historical allegations against dead people or recording incidents of alleged misogyny. Read More...
South’s Exception Sirs: I am sure that it is a very foolish thing for me to expose myself in a discussion with such a learned gentleman as Leslie White of the Department of Anthropology of the University of Michigan [TIME, Sept. 20]. However, the records on “spittin’ image” should certainly be kept straight. I don’t think that the expression has anything to do with saliva. It originated, I believe, among the darkies of the South and the correct phrasing—without dialect—is “spirit and image. Read More...