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Why I See Little Point In Operation Unite…

Well I'm sitting back tonight watching twitter out of the corner of my eye and the few posts that are turning up in #OpUnite tonight are a little interesting. Even if it does seem that the NT Police and VicPol are the only ones down with the whole twitter thing.

Interesting in the way that I disagree with operations like this. The figures may disagree with me at this point but I believe that publicity stunts like this do very little to reduce crime related to alcohol in the centers. The reason for this is quite simple, if you where gonna go out and have a real big night would you make anything different because of OpUnite. I know I wouldn't.

Some may, but it would simply involve taking it easy or staying home for the weekend away from the multitude of police that will only be here for a couple of days tops. Then it goes back to the usual force that's out and about and the numbers of people being caught and crimes being prevented goes back down to it's usual figures.

It makes the community feel as though the police really are doing something when in fact it's only happening this weekend. If we really do need more cops in the centers to attempt to quell the violent drunken rabble that seems to inhabit the CBD perhaps we should, get more... Not just re-assign some for a weekend to make it look like our police forces are united against this kind of thing. But in their defence it is the best they can do.

To the state parliament, perhaps if we actually had more cops we wouldn't need operation unite and instead we'd have the lower crime levels that are inevitable after an increase in police numbers.

Feel free to throw some numbers my way if you really think publicity stunts like Operation Unite make any difference in the long-term, but IMHO they do nothing but provide the media unit with some nice stories to make it sound like it is making a difference out there. And maybe it is, but I'm betting it's just for tonight...

Also, to those who care on Facebook now my posts are getting posted as notes again...