We are living in an age in which you can't open your bloody mouth without offending someone because of their race or whatever. I have no time for these racist nutters I would like to add, but if someone does something wrong, they use it like a tool against you.

I saw an example in the waiting room of my doctors recently. The young lady at the desk was doing her best, one gentleman complained he was waiting 30 minutes and tried to make out she was doing it because of his colour.

Kids see this and find it works. Adults should be able to challenge young people acting in an anti-social way without fear of prosecution.

We need to re-write the rules to give officers more discretion when dealing with people who intervene.

People were being forced to "bleat" to police but said he was not promoting vigilantism.

At the moment, police across the UK advise people not to put themselves at risk if they come across young people acting in an anti-social way or committing a crime.


While I am not defending people who used excessive force or vigilantism, we should stop people feeling that they could not intervene in their own neighbourhoods to prevent bad behaviour.

        
The public have come round to seeing the police as more likely to bite them than do something about the problems in the community

If somebody comes in to a police station and makes an allegation clearly of the most trivial character they nevertheless have to go through a process of dealing with it which may involve going round and confronting the person against whom the trivial allegation has been made.

People have become willing "to go running off to the police to bleat about the most minor matters" because they feel powerless to do anything themselves.


If the police were allowed to show discretion, it would restore people's confidence in dealing with low-level crimes.