Wed, 07 Mar 2007
In the same week, the Met launched a counter-terrorism
ad
campaign calling Londoners to report anything they suspect,
and announced some terrorism arrest statistics showing that more than
half of arrested terrorist suspects since 2001-09-11 have been released
without charges.
From September 2001-09-11 upto 2006-12-31, more
than half of the 1,166 persons arrested by the UK Police as part of
a terrorist investigation were released without charge (652 out of
1166); and as of 2007-03-05, only
40 were convicted for terrorism related offences. (The original statistics are
currently available on the
Home
Office website. Some other analysis include the
BBC,
the
Guardian
and
Jurist.)
Read
Techie
and terrorist behavioural profiles are the same to realise
that we're all suspects, then go browse the Met's ‘
if you suspect it, report it’
ad campaign and be scared. When will they learn from their past
mistakes?
Do whatever you can to reclaim your civil liberties before you get
denounced for having a
non
conforming behaviour and are
arrested.
Some suggestions.
