It looks like the thief who stole Hazel Blears’ computer from her Salford office may have an easier time logging on than Hazel did..
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I admit it, I was wrong.
I have always been against 28 days and obviously 42 days. The decimation of civil liberties, I believe, is worth fighting against and I would have had a sneaking admiration for David Davis principled stand had he not been a supporter of the death penalty.
I did not believe for a second that police needed a full 42 days to question witnesses and sift through the supposed mountains of evidence to ensure a conviction.
If there really is a need for extra time, penalties, replays etc. to go through all this, then the Government need only invest more in manpower, hardware and software rather than take the risk of detaining possibly entirely innocent people for 42 days.
How could the police take so long to complete their enquires I thought.
Now that Hazel Blears’ computer has been stolen, I realise how wrong I was.
Should the police apprehend the lowlife who recently stole the communities secretary’s pc (or laptop) from her constituency office in Salford, how long will it take them to gather all the necessary evidence ?
(The laptop contained ’sensitive documents relating to defence and extremism‘ (BBC) so the theft could be considered a terrorist offence.)
How long will it take Manchester Police to get a STRAIGHT ANSWER to any of their questions from HAZEL BLEARS?
28 days, 42 days, 365 days ?
There is not enough enough manpower in the whole British police force to complete this herculean task in the limited time currently allowed by law.
So, reluctantly, despite my initial misgivings, I must come down in favour of perpetual detention for suspects accused of terrorist offences.
Thank you Hazel, you have opened my eyes.
Apparently it has extra reinforcement on the back.
Also, a new animation for Channel 4 News a little later today.
rough sketch with the odd digital additions.
or will it be the other way around?
To think there is a likelihood of public disorder from 10,000 police officers marching through central London is a nonsense,
Oh, the irony….
More here from The Observer.
I admit the whole De Menezes issue is confusing.
My own (current) opinion is that most officers on the scene were put into a situation where they had to act on what orders they were given and intelligence and organisation was badly flawed.
However, the photoshopping issue in the health and safety case is all over the place.
Having worked with the images that are available, there do seem to be lightness, saturation, (possibly) contrast and minor angle of photograph issues.
Then there is the cropping of the photograph.
The media seem to be showing a cropped image of the police handout which does show a misalignment of the top of the heads.
If I hadn’t discovered the police handout, I would have said the image was judiciously cropped to obscure this misalignment but it wasn’t - the media have done this.
Do remember that I can only go on what I have seen published. Perhaps there are better resolution images in the hands of the experts but the lightness and contrast issues could account for the loss of detail on the De Menezes ’side’.
It does surprise me that the police handout does seem to be more degraded than images I can find on the net but I don’t know if these are the exact source photos used in the composite but I believe they could well be.
The big BUT is, though, why align the left hand side of someone’s face with the right hand side of someone else’s ?
Faces aren’t symmetrical. If you are comparing likenesses, you compare the whole to the whole, not manufacture a hybrid.
And, what if you were to compare the other side of the faces as I have done.
Now, I haven’t aligned faces. What I’ve done is look at what I can best approximate are the mirror images of the faces. i.e. hide the sides that were show side by side and reveal the opposites in the same alignment as the mirror images were.
Please note that I created my own composite of the Met Police one (which has greater contrast) and that is the one on the top.
The original Met Police image is below that one. There is a slight difference in face size which does give a slightly more obvious misalignment at the top of the head (probably exacerbated by the higher contrast) but the width of the faces and alignment of the facial features do seem to give a different impression.
Update - I have amende my own images and adjusted the size of Mr De Menezes head (in both top images and in proportion) to reduce this alignment.
Further update - I have now reduced brightness, contrast and saturation (on both sides of my own composite) as best I can to mimic that of the original and placed the opposite (reduced contrast etc.) to the right of the original. My own (reduce contrast etc.) appears below the original.
