Going home

Though the figures I can find only go as far as 2000/1 it's fairly safe to assume that there hasn't been a huge increase in the number of police shootings in the last few years. What's not shown here is how many were fatal discharges. What it does show is that there's immense restraint in our armed police response teams.

In England and Wales and Scotland, firearms were discharged by the Police in.

9 incidents in 1995/96 from a total of incidents where firearms we authorized for use of 8671
13 incidents in 1996/97 from a total of incidents where firearms we authorized for use of 12649
5 incidents in 1997/98 from a total of incidents where firearms we authorized for use of 12134
15 incidents in 1998/99 from a total of incidents where firearms we authorized for use of 11184
10 incidents in 1999/2000 from a total of incidents where firearms we authorized for use of 11056
13 incidents in 2000/01 from a total of incidents where firearms we authorized for use of 11183

That's 55,964 total calls for armed police assistance and 52 times the guns were fired. We do not have a problem with policemen running around killing people.

Captain Cook at sunset

In four hours and 23 minutes I'll be a married man.

It's now 23:20 in London and according to my thermostat it's 80� F. That's mighty hot.

RE: The previous post. Apparently there are some pictures these have obviously been doctored in Photoshop. Links will appear soon so you can make your own mind up.

I survived my stag do with skill and aplomb. At no point was I throwing up in to a bin half way up Great Portland Street and neither did I wrestle both Julian and Linda to the floor. I was not completely off my face.

If your website was to appear on the cover of a national magazine would you go back and edit all the bad entries?

"Create universal binaries of your apps." My Arse

Even at night you can just tell that Doncaster is a shit hole.

I'm blogging from the 19:30 Kings Cross to Leeds 'Mallard' service. I see the link; The Mallard held the train speed record at some point and ran a similar route to this particular train but I can't help thinking there would have been a more elegant name. Mallard congers up the image of well I don't know. Perhaps they should have called it the Really Fucking Bumpy.

Prison Officer: What you in for?
Fletcher: Got caught.