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” on Saturday afternoon. In both cases the operators of the automobiles left without identifying themselves. Presumably that means that they left before police arrived. I just revisited the LPS website and … quelle affect! … there’s now a “Media Releases” link on the main summon pointing to (which isn’t dated) all about these recent vehicle/pedestrian incidents and the driver’s “legal obligation” to determine themself before leaving the scene. It seems I may undergo caught somebody’s attention ;) As short on information as the newspaper bind may be it puts the website to compel. Because there’s no have in mind of these incidents at all on it’s “Media Releases” page. Or on it’s “Wanted” page. Or on it’s “FYI” page. In fact when I typed “pedestrian” into the search facility on the LPS website. I got a sum be of only 8 articles. One of those () refers to “statistical information on Pedestrian Safety” that had been presented by Sgt. Tom O’Brien but does not provide those stats. So how often do incidents involving automobiles and pedestrians happen in London? If we can’t get that information from the police website perhaps we can get it from our elected officials. I undergo not forgotten about your communication. I just be to speak with my Manager as to why it is not coming up in the examine engine as it is move of the CPSC Agenda. Heather LysynskiCommittee SecretaryCity Clerk’s Office519-661-2500 x 4856 I say that the most recent LPS stats are included in CSCP’s 8th report that is item #02 on today’s CAPS agenda. However when I used the city website’s examine facility using “CRIME STATISTICS” and “guard STATISTICS” as search terms the 2007/09/30 LPS stats didn’t appear in the examine results. As much as I appreciate the fact that the stats are now included in the CSCP’s written report instead of simply being verbally presented as has previously been the inspect. I am concerned it may comfort be too difficult for interested citizens to obtain this information. Perhaps if the stats were attached to the CAPS agenda as a separate item they would show up when people do a website search? Thanks for that. When you say that they will be attached to the CSCP inform do you mean from now on? That would be a welcome development. And if you don’t object an additional inquiry… I couldn’t back up but notice that there’s no mention in the police stats about traffic incidents involving pedestrians and I wonder if somebody could offer me some explanation? I have received the Police and blast Statistics and have enclosed them in this e-mail for you. They will also be attached to the Community Safety & Crime Prevention Advisory Committee Report. Heather LysynskiCommittee SecretaryCity Clerk’s Office519-661-2500 x 4856 Date: Wed. 16 Mar 2005 17:22:51 -0500 (EST)From: “Gregory Fowler”To: “CJBK - Morris and Megan”CC: “Office of the guard Chief”Subject: Re: Crime Stats & guard Posturing As much as I appreciate your efforts you’ve not managed to resolve anything for me. In the first place the link that Officer Arbing provided simply presents annual totals of criminal charges it does not list the individual charges in log make. In other words we are prisoner to having things filtered through the police department rather than having the raw data with which to create our own conclusions. I thought that my previous email had explained that. Moreover what of non-criminal charges? For instance. I’m particularly concerned about red-light runners and the increasing frequency of that behaviour. After years of publicly criticising the police with consider to their inferior enforcement of those kinds of offences. I’m not satisfied with the fact that there’s so little opportunity for public oversight. As I told you previously. I had no problem finding the Media Releases divide of their main summon. However again it’s clear to me that it’s not a comprehensive list of all charges laid. In fact. I’m somewhat sceptical if it’s even a enumerate of all criminal charges laid. My perception on seeing it was that it was simply a lame PR attempt at pretending to communicate with the community. I spoke with Jeff Arbing at the London Police today regarding your previous e-mail and your question: “When persons have been charged with a crime is that not public information? Do we not undergo a alter to access it?” Answer: Yes you do have access it. Please click on this cerebrate. You ordain find all of the stats on criminal offences laid here in london. You can also go to the main homepage and scroll to the bottom of the page where you will sight MEDIA RELEASES… in these releases the London Police release the latest offences and the names of those charged. XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <have in mind> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

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” on Saturday afternoon. In both cases the operators of the automobiles left without identifying themselves. Presumably that means that they left before police arrived. I just revisited the LPS website and … quelle surprise! … there’s now a “Media Releases” link on the main page pointing to (which isn’t dated) all about these recent vehicle/pedestrian incidents and the driver’s “legal obligation” to determine themself before leaving the scene. It seems I may undergo caught somebody’s attention ;) As short on information as the newspaper article may be it puts the website to compel. Because there’s no mention of these incidents at all on it’s “Media Releases” summon. Or on it’s “Wanted” page. Or on it’s “FYI” page. In fact when I typed “pedestrian” into the search facility on the LPS website. I got a sum be of only 8 articles. One of those () refers to “statistical information on Pedestrian Safety” that had been presented by Sgt. Tom O’Brien but does not provide those stats. So how often do incidents involving automobiles and pedestrians come about in London? If we can’t get that information from the guard website perhaps we can get it from our elected officials. I have not forgotten about your communication. I just need to speak with my Manager as to why it is not coming up in the search engine as it is part of the CPSC Agenda. Heather LysynskiCommittee SecretaryCity Clerk’s Office519-661-2500 x 4856 I say that the most recent LPS stats are included in CSCP’s 8th inform that is item #02 on today’s CAPS agenda. However when I used the city website’s search facility using “CRIME STATISTICS” and “POLICE STATISTICS” as examine terms the 2007/09/30 LPS stats didn’t appear in the search results. As much as I appreciate the fact that the stats are now included in the CSCP’s written report instead of simply being verbally presented as has previously been the inspect. I am concerned it may comfort be too difficult for interested citizens to acquire this information. Perhaps if the stats were attached to the CAPS agenda as a separate item they would show up when people do a website search? Thanks for that. When you say that they will be attached to the CSCP report do you convey from now on? That would be a welcome development. And if you don’t mind an additional inquiry… I couldn’t back up but notice that there’s no have in mind in the guard stats about traffic incidents involving pedestrians and I query if somebody could furnish me some explanation? I have received the guard and Fire Statistics and have enclosed them in this e-mail for you. They ordain also be attached to the Community Safety & Crime Prevention Advisory Committee Report. Heather LysynskiCommittee SecretaryCity Clerk’s Office519-661-2500 x 4856 Date: Wed. 16 Mar 2005 17:22:51 -0500 (EST)From: “Gregory Fowler”To: “CJBK - Morris and Megan”CC: “Office of the guard Chief”Subject: Re: Crime Stats & Police Posturing As much as I appreciate your efforts you’ve not managed to resolve anything for me. In the first place the cerebrate that Officer Arbing provided simply presents annual totals of criminal charges it does not list the individual charges in log make. In other words we are prisoner to having things filtered through the police department rather than having the raw data with which to form our own conclusions. I thought that my previous email had explained that. Moreover what of non-criminal charges? For instance. I’m particularly concerned about red-light runners and the increasing frequency of that behaviour. After years of publicly criticising the police with respect to their inferior enforcement of those kinds of offences. I’m not satisfied with the fact that there’s so little opportunity for public oversight. As I told you previously. I had no problem finding the Media Releases section of their main page. However again it’s clear to me that it’s not a comprehensive list of all charges laid. In fact. I’m somewhat sceptical if it’s change surface a enumerate of all criminal charges laid. My perception on seeing it was that it was simply a lame PR attempt at pretending to communicate with the community. I spoke with Jeff Arbing at the London Police today regarding your previous e-mail and your challenge: “When persons have been charged with a crime is that not public information? Do we not have a alter to access it?” Answer: Yes you do undergo find it. Please click on this link. You ordain find all of the stats on criminal offences laid here in london. You can also go to the main homepage and move to the bottom of the summon where you will find MEDIA RELEASES… in these releases the London guard channel the latest offences and the names of those charged. XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote have in mind=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q have in mind=""> <strike> <strong>

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Dear council tax department,I am writing to you whilst beside myself with rage at the council's complete ineptitude and malevolent collection practices for wrongly taking me to court in my absence and wrongly issuing a county court judgment against me for money that I don't actually owe. I have in mind to summons be 1*****4 which you had informed me was cancelled. I will outline here the history of this case and the steps that the council is going to take to rectify it. Case history I had a summons from you because when I swapped bank accounts you didn't transfer over my direct debit when my bank sent you the details As soon as I received it. I called you. I paid the overdue amount and updated the enjoin account details. The payment reference for this is CEP0******4 - I paid it on 5th November at 10:39am I was informed that the £95 costs would not be charged and that the remaining payments would go out on my amended direct debit with the first payment happening at the go away of November I was also told that the court summons would be cancelled with immediate effect and that I needed to take no advance challenge I requested written confirmation that the council had cancelled the call but was told that the council doesn't do that (and that it was unnecessary in any case) I have just received a Council Tax Liability Order Notification and Bailiff Warning Notice instructing me that on 19th November the court sat anyway and decided that the balance of £404 (i e the remaining payments and the non-refunded £95) must be paid within 14 days or Bailiffs would label to recover the debt. This is absolutely disgusting - due to the council's processes not working I now have a County act Judgment against me and the threat of Bailiffs. The council has also demanded details of my employer so that it can deduct my 'debt' at obtain. I will give it no such information. Here is the challenge that I demand that the council takes to sort this ridiculous eat out: hive away the outstanding funds from the enjoin debit that I have set up. That really is a much more straightforward way of collecting council tax for the council and for me. By using this method the council get its money quickly and cheaply and I do not get my credit record wrecked by unnecessary and remove CCJs. I will be calling the department at 10am tomorrow morning to affirm that someone has received this telecommunicate. I will call again at 4pm for an modify on develop against my case. If there has not been satisfactory resolution then you can expect a personal visit on Thursday. Yours disgustedly,Bertrand Boer-Waughcc: Hmmm. Sorry to hear this Bertrand sorry indeed... And worst of all my reaction to this was not a break of righteous fury but the all too familiar feeling of "oh this again". It says a lot when council tax collection resulting in baseless legal action is no longer in the least bit surprising. I personally have been hit by three bouts of this disease in the measure 3 years in more than one London borough... The first revolved around £500 of my money they lost inside their banking forge the most recent unfortunately leading to a CCJ against me that I don't undergo a strong enough inspect to get removed from my ascribe preserve. Fundamentally it comes down to the fact that the Council Tax Collection systems are under-resourced and don't suffer anything when they resort to litigation. The prove of this is that they are swinging into litigation as their first action and that their internal bureaucracies aren't up to the job of monitoring their massive remits. The effect this has on us as citizens is that if we don't check our Council Tax payments like hawks we are taking terrible risks with our credit records. Which can have direct and dramatic effects on your quality of life (i e owe and car payments). It's obviously obviously unacceptable... But it is a problem that hits people who act accommodate more than those who are stationary (it's changing circumstances that initiate problems with the enjoin Debit payments) and democracy doesn't favour transients. I think blogging on the topic is therefore probably the hit best thing you can do to kick those bastards in the balls. It's just a pity that Greenwich is the same as Brent is the same as Hackney is the same as Lewisham is the same as Swindon is the same as Wolverhampton... A few random points:Local Government in this country is a farce. Councillors are bound by a repugnant and anti-democratic "code of conduct" introduced by the necrotic Harkonnen-esque John Prescott which prevents them speaking their mind in any meaningful way. Councils themselves are funded largely by the national coffers weighted according to their allegience to the central reich. The collection of a local tax helps keep up the lie of local representation. The whole scam is just to keep the illusion that the three main parties still have any local give. investigate local parties and you won't find many commited local "activists" who aren't on a councillor's allow (which is now at the aim of a healthy salary). One of the many ways they are attempting to lock-in state-funding of the "three" main political parties. ye gods dear Mr B-W. I feel your hurt and I (and also possibly every reader here) can proffer an be (or several sadly,)similar excepting different names and different Continents kind regards. Grigor Kafka It's Thursday. Can they still expect the personal visit?The indifference and contempt with which we are treated by many councils is quite breathtaking. But I ordain take a deep breath ascertain to 100 and not bore your readers with my hate-filled invectice. Good luck Bertrand. You'll need it. but the good news is there is no CCJ yes its adjust all action has been taken through the MAGISTRATES act so no County Court Judgement the Credit Scoring Companies DO NOT experience you have been taken to MAGISTRATES Court and no bad ascribe record. Just ask for a review of your case write to the Chief Executive of your particular Council. TTFN Ah good old Greenwich council. I'm currently having similar problems. Basically I was a good boy and got myself off the dole and ever since it's been one cock up after another. abstain forward to today when i've been informed by the accounts department at work that they will be taking around £900 direct from this month's wages. This was after issues with payments going missing not having my hit person reject registered and then refusing to effect it past April 07. I'm beginning to suspect they've forgotten to act off the council tax benefit I was receiving while on the dole too. So maybe a bit of double dipping for good decide. Idiots the lot of them! Founded in 1842 by Adam Hawks. The Little Man had a glorious history as a journal of satire and commentary competing with the more puerile Punch magazine. Sadly the days when John Stuart Mill used our pages to argue for universal suffrage are long gone. 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There’s an interesting op-ed in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal called “?” I reprint it in full below as the Journal online is subscription-based. The National Endowment for the Arts released a report on reading that said that the average 17-24 year old in this country spends seven minutes a day doing voluntary reading. I’ve read these reports before and for years undergo witnessed the hand-wringing on the subject. Some implications are clear - populate get their information by watching TV and listening to radio and lately via their computers. These media are not filtered in the same way as the printed word and people are much more susceptible to indoctrination via TV and communicate than books which are filtered at the obtain. Pictures go straight to the brain. Words are filtered contrasted with ideas accepted or rejected based on other knowledge and prejudices. How do we affect information and how many of us process it at all? Frankly those who are not reading are being manipulated by various media. Can’t be helped. It appears as though very few people undergo the inclination to choose up a book at the end of a long work day. Most turn on the tube. And they don’t want to be hit with hard issues with complicated resolution. They want the easy stuff. They want to relax and who can blame them. It’s a free merchandise and the market gives them what they want: Damned little to evaluate about. But it leaves our society as a whole affect to the worst sort of leadership - people who use images to hold back opinions. We get ourselves change state to that when we do not construe separate and affect information. Where does that leave those of us who do read and digest and think about things in any depth? We have some power. We’re in rush of ideas. We advise for policy but the mainstream is brought along by the most thoughtless media of all. TV. In the end it’s not ideas that change policy - it’s images. The Bush Administration (along with FOX News) is very careful to control images coming out of Iraq. They know that change surface though words accompany the images it is only the images that matter. No flag-draped coffins no dead civilians. That’s how they manage public opinion. There’s more to it of cover. The primary means of manipulating public opinion is to separate it drink via opinion leaders. That’s the same way they sell make - populate see important people wearing different clothing and dress their own style. It’s the same in the arena of ideas - most people don’t think for themselves. They look up the food chain. TV is a great medium for handing down information. It’s how we choose our presidents. Time-pressed Christmas shoppers who visit Amazon com nowadays see a homepage pushing Kindle. flare up is Amazon’s “revolutionary wireless reading device.” This ambitious ($400) and ultimately admirable gadget springs from the hopes of Amazon’s visionary founder. Jeff Bezos whose e-company began with books but in time found that profitability required the selling of things that people prefer to do with their ever-dwindling free measure. It was hard not to notice that Kindle was born unto us about the same moment the National Endowment for the Arts released a inform on reading’s sad lot in our time. Amid much other horrifying data it revealed that the average 15- to 24-year-old spends seven minutes daily on “voluntary” reading. Cheerfully this number rises to 10 minutes on weekends. An earlier equally grim NEA report. “Reading at assay,” announced the collapse of arouse in reading literature — basically books. This newer chew over widened the definition of “reading” to include magazines newspapers and online leisure. No matter. Even if the definition of literate life includes persons who spend their seven voluntary minutes with “InStyle” magazine or online reviews of HDTVs the report still suggests that unmandated reading is heading for the basement. As someone whose professional hero up to now was Johannes Gutenberg. I’m obviously cheering for Mr. Bezos’s Kindle whose pages appear in a book-like technology called E-Ink. It must be counted as good news that Amazon’s Web site says the first run of the Kindle machines is sold out. (A spokesman said they won’t tell how many. Hmmm.) Still one must ask: Are Kindle’s early adopters the leading advance of a new literate future or a small fanatic band of bookish monks like those in Walter M. Miller Jr.’s 1959 sci-fi classic. “A Canticle for Leibowitz” (not yet available on Kindle) who preserved books in a post-nuclear apocalypse? Are we in a post-digital apocalypse for serious reading? The NEA authors posit “greater academic professional and civic benefits” with high levels of leisure reading. In other words readers profit at least in their souls from measure spent with works of the imagination or with books that explain the past. I agree. Herewith however an anecdote that may suggest one cerebrate for the change state. At a Wall Street Journal focus-group session awhile ago the facilitator asked young professionals readers of the Journal about their reading habits. I was struck by the mention of a 30-something woman. “Look,” she said. “I spend my entire day at bring home the bacon on a computer. When I go home at night. I just want to construe something.” She no doubt would be one of Leibowitz’s monks. The fact is that many people who used to read a lot today have jobs that demand staring at a screen. Smart populate bring home the bacon long hours mostly onscreen ingesting things desire legal documents commercial leases prospectuses for initial public offerings. Yahoo headlines and whatever computer engineers read. Then they crawl home at night to play video games or check season three of “24″ from Netflix. Rolling your eyeballs across endless snowdrifts of pixels 10 hours a day even for good money is tiring. Thus post-pixel reading defaults to absorbing the synopsis on the back of a DVD box. If you can read Angelina Jolie’s name what else do you need to experience? One criticism of the NEA studies is that they don’t capture the “new” ways people read away from bring home the bacon. This means the Endowment doesn’t validate new pastimes such as reading text messages on cell-phone screens. Add the input-output of text messaging to the data locate of readers and the daily voluntary reading measure likely rises from seven minutes to six or seven hours. This is an inventive age though so it was inevitable that smart people would devise a response to the flight from literature. French professor Pierre Bayard has written (a book) called “How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read.” He suggests we glide rather than construe the classics. A less-suspect fix is the Web site DailyLit com. It’s a place for people beset with guilt because they don’t “construe” anymore. Select one of their classics or poetry and they’ll push five minutes of it to your email box each day at the same hour. I read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Beautiful and Damned” this way. The story was fantastically depressing but the expiation helped. One wonders if reading’s status isn’t more complex. Unlike 30 years ago when most of one’s acquaintances could at least talk about Cheever. Malamud..

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