Depression

Three depressing news items over breakfast.

First, the police found it necessary to strip search a young woman who would not talk to them - by removal of her clothes by scissors, no less. Why could she not simply have been put into a cell for a while?

Second, the people organising our health care have been directed to cut the queues (no doubt caused by their inefficiency) by contracting some of the work out to the private sector (where things are done so much better). The people who issue these directives are not dim in the ordinary sense of the word, so why does it not occur to them that the reason that there are queues is because there is not enough money in the system and that paying contractors a great deal of money to the work instead is hardly the way to make what money there is go further.

Third, there still seems to be no progress in the investigation of the shooting of someone (who appears to have been a career criminal) on the M62 near Huddersfield, getting on for two years ago now. When are we going to be reassured that vigilante justice is not on the loose? The continuing silence is not encouraging, depressing even.

PS: some days later: email inquiry elicited prompt reply. The trial scheduled for the spring is now scheduled for the autumn - with this trial being one of the things blocking public progress with this investigation.

Reference 1: https://psmv3.blogspot.com/search?q=huddersfield.

Reference 2: https://policeconduct.gov.uk/news/update-ipcc-investigation-following-fatal-shooting-yassar-yaqub.