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Opinions on Police Scotland new ad?
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Posted 1 year ago #
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I don't mind the video (it's a bit twee but other than that) but it's a bad look to spend money on it and shelve the dashcam portal for budgetary reasons (and I've said as much on their Twitter)
Posted 1 year ago # -
But is it PS or CS money?
“
On average, four cyclists a week suffer serious injuries on Scotland's roads from vehicle collisions
Close passes are a common experience for cyclists, which is why we're supporting the @CyclingScotland #GiveCycleSpace campaign.
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https://twitter.com/PoliceScotland/status/1654048324952137728
Whatever, I can’t see it making much difference.
Doubt if it will have as much profile/advertising spend as CS’s much derided NiceWayCode effort.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Good video. Hopefully will introduce to drivists the idea that cyclists are humans too.
Posted 1 year ago # -
Good drivers will see it and think, "great, I already do this and I'm a good driver"
Bad drivers will either not bother to watch it at all, or will think, "meh, why do I need to bother with this?"
And there's the rub of these kind of campaigns: they only succeed in communicating to the ones that "already know"
Posted 1 year ago # -
shelve the dashcam portal for budgetary reasons
Aye my bum. I mean it's technically true in that they gave that reason, but it's bollocks since they were given ringfenced funding to get it going. If I had any doubt the seniors at Police Scotland were blocking it as an eff-you to the Scottish Government for not giving them the overall budget they wanted, it went away when they sent half the Glasgow force to set up a "murder tent" on Sturgeon's front lawn for the benefit of the media when they were having a quick rummage through their paperwork.
Posted 1 year ago # -
shelve the dashcam portal for budgetary reasons
Because it would create extra work (which they'd then have to pay someone to do)?
Heaven forfend that they should be able to put any effort into, you know, enforcing the law.
Posted 1 year ago # -
I'm sure they could manage to scrape together the required salaries, but they might have to drop a few of their stunt-enforcement programs and they won't have that - a national portal might significantly reduce RTAs and criminality, but it's not real policing is it, not like a couple of bobbies standing on a street with a speed gun and giving the occasional genuinely egregious speeder a very stern talking to. Perhaps even a finger wag if they're feeling uncharitable.
Posted 1 year ago # -
That’s SO cynical.
But sadly may well be true.
All sorts of puffs on Twitter about ‘cycling round bits of Edinburgh and talking to people’ and ‘pulled someone over and found they were disqualified/no insurance/etc’.
PLUS ‘took speed camera out to 50mph road and stopped 3 people going over 75’.
Meanwhile (apparently) 40% of crime is ‘fraud’ with 2% of officers looking into it.
Posted 1 year ago # -
If it's lack of money they could come down to Stow and point a speed gun up the supposedly 20 mph A7. Ker-ching.
Posted 1 year ago #
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