18 January 2014

Communities 'taking law into their own hands', says police chief inspector

.... The chief inspector of constabulary, Tom Winsor, said some ethnic minority communities are turning their backs on police and rarely, if ever, call them to deal with crimes as serious as murder and sexual assaults against children, instead dealing with them in their own way.

Winsor said police were never called to some neighbourhoods because they "administer their own form of justice", adding that this was not carried out by criminal gangs but by "law-abiding people". [The Guardian] Read more