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Clooty Cap replied to PoliceScotlandShetland's topic in Shetland News
Are you suggesting that drugs don't vary in the level of (potential) danger they pose, and that drinking a pint of beer, or smoking a joint is roughly equivalent to taking crystal meth or PCP? The personal effects may be different however what about human cost. A joint? Most of the herbal cannabis available in Scotland comes from crime groups and many are triad based. Ask the male of the Asian family who has been secreted in a loft for years being fed basics at harvest time under fear of either he or his family dying. Or his wife or daughters in brothels. Pretty sure that wasn't the life they were promised. Better still. If we don't want to look at the trafficking aspect look closer to home. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-18826528 This is a boy in the north of Scotland. Abducted and taken to Portugal. Parts cut off him. Real reservoir dogs stuff. All related to cannabis. So no, I don't see any difference and I certainly wouldn't class anything as soft. Wherever there is potential to make money, there is potential for people to be exploited. Whether it be in the drugs trade, sex industries, precious metals and precious stones or even clothes and textiles industries. The human costs you list as being associated with cannabis manufacture by drug gangs are terrible but why do you think there are gangs doing this? Probably because your average cannabis user doesn't want to risk growing it for themselves because of the fact it's illegal. -
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Clooty Cap replied to PoliceScotlandShetland's topic in Shetland News
its good that the trend seems to have been changed as the stats I posted up for 2010 were a bit of a shock. -
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Clooty Cap replied to PoliceScotlandShetland's topic in Shetland News
My unproven theory about heroin use increasing at times when softer drugs are in short supply would appear to be backed up by the then head of the CADSS Gill Hession, if you read the article you might have seen this. As for the boom in synthetic highs, I would assume the boom in the usage of these products is mostly down to the legality issue and the presumption that they are safe since they can be purchased over the internet. This won't have any affect on heroin usage though, unless over the same time the supply of heroin into the isle was cut off. Shetland does seem to be the kind of place that has a tendency to encourage substance, once again this is touched on in the link I posted earlier. -
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Clooty Cap replied to PoliceScotlandShetland's topic in Shetland News
First of all, I don't think anyone is saying that the drugs dog charity has been instrumental in causing the heroin problem in Shetland, so yes that statement would be absolute rubbish, what has been discussed is the possibility that since the drugs dog started operating in Shetland, that there appears to be an increase in heroin use that could be caused by a shortage of your so called softer drug. The drugs dogs may be spending a lot of time in schools educating youngsters to the dangers of drugs but there are still plenty of school leavers deciding that despite what they've been warned about drug use, they want to find out in person what the attraction is. I found this article about heroin use in Shetland, it's from a magazine called Druglink, Sept-Oct 2010. Here's an interesting quote from it, http://www.drugscope.org.uk/Resources/Drugscope/Documents/PDF/Publications/DruglinkSept-Oct2010.pdf "Figures from community alcohol and Drug services shetland (caDss), the isles’ main treatment agency, highlight the extent of heroin’s penetration. in 2001, caDss treated a small pocket of heroin users, around three-quarters of whom were incomers from elsewhere. nine years on, around 70-80 per cent of its heroin-using clients have been born or brought up in shetland. contrary to sensationalist headlines slamming shetland for having ‘scotland’s worst heroin problem’, the numbers are relatively low. caDss now treats around 100 heroin users, a fraction of most urban caseloads. Yet worryingly, while treatment agencies across britain are witnessing an ageing heroin-using population, shetland is bucking the trend. under-25s now account for around half of caDss drug treatment clients, compared to a quarter in 2006." These stats from the community alcohol and Drugs services shetland would suggest that up to 2010 there has been an increase in heroin use and that it has predominantly in the under 25s. In fact nearly every stat in this article would suggest that young heroin users have increased throughout the period the drugs dog have been in use. So maybe the education needs to be worked on. -
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Clooty Cap replied to PoliceScotlandShetland's topic in Shetland News
I disagree. This way is more democratic. You don't have to pay unless you do consider it good value. I agree to a certain extent with what you say but there are plenty of people who don't question if it's good value, they base their decision to donate money on an understanding that it's necessary for them to continue funding the dogs if they are to continue operating in Shetland. -
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So gollywog has taken on an offensive element (for some reason) not present in the initial object. If that were the case then I would say an object with that name can take on the new offensive connotations of the language used to name it. Especially in this case where the doll is a caricature of a black man and the name gollywog is an insult directed at black people.Its all a matter of context.
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Because how we use language can attribute meanings to words that the word doesn't have when used in its original context.
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There is a doll called Barbie, the doll is perfectly innocent, calling a person barbie or comparing someone to barbie is an insult. It doesn't require someone to explain the difference between the doll and the insult for it to be clear there is a difference.
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Unless you can provide one example of any one who has contributed to this discussion worshiping Gollywogs then I would suggest you retract that statement as it is neither humorous or factual.
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Clooty Cap replied to PoliceScotlandShetland's topic in Shetland News
Although you are right that value for money does play a part in how effective a service like "dogs agains drugs" are perceived to be, I personally feel that as we are led to believe they are an effective tool in the fight agains crime in Shetland then they should be funded solely with money from the police budget, we all pay taxes and a percentage of that money is put towards paying for the provision of our local police force, we shouldn't have to pay extra through charities and the like to provide extra tools to the police.You do seem to be saying that the budget provided to you would allow for you to fund the dogs and handlers yourself. The way the economy is locally there are many local services that have had their budgets cut due to the council not having the funds available, COPE for example has had to scale down their operations to the extent of shutting the Karabuni, services like The Freefield centre were also affected, I would rather see money raised locally from charity and buisness donations go to services like this than being spent on something you appear to have admitted you could be funding yourself. As for how to tackle the problem of substance abuse in Shetland, well I would say something has to change because as a man much wiser than me has once said "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." The current drug policy obviously isn't working but it's probably one for the people at the Community Alcohol and Drugs Services Shetland to tackle as they would have better ideas than me on the way forward in the isle. -
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If they're going over Tescos roundabout at 30 they'll no have many fillings left in their teeth.
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I can only hope that whatever he may have got onto his keyboard isn't nearly as nasty as the image conjured up in my mind.
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Clooty Cap reacted to a post in a topic: Boy Racers
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That could be difficult to ascertain as you would need to have a similar period without the dolls, even then, very hard to use as evidence that folk have just not gone into the shop. Some visitors may just not go in. As for the rest of Shetland, there is not much else beyond the shops there, folk may not know about it as they may never had a need to use that part of the highway.. Gibber, remember this is not a jolly jape, you have been told you are wrong, take it like a man Perhaps, with comments on Policing and the comments here, the worst thing that could happen is that visitors and those not originally from Shetland may just see the place as a 3rd world "county" in a Alfred Sauvy sense. That could though become bad. Not necessarily SP, most shops in Shetland will run on such a fine line between success and failure that they can ill afford to deliberately discourage customers from entering the shop, and to actively discriminate against a whole ethnic group would be a suicidal buisness plan for any shop with such small profit margins. Doesn't Lemn himself try educate us as to the fact that the shops in Shetland are unsustainable without the money tourists pour into their tills when the cruise ships visit? Despite having these dolls for sale in her shop and on display in the window the shop in question has managed to stay open, it has been a success when so many around her have failed. Is it not possible that the number of people offended by this display are low enough as to stop her losing out on business to any significant degree and as such it could also be possible that as has been stated by others before that of all the many different nationalities and races of people who visit this island on an annual basis that only a few individuals have taken any real offence at these dolls.
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I'm not aware of anyone denying people the right to be offended, what I have seen is people taking issue with the stance of, once someone has taken offence then all efforts must be made to remove the source of the offence. Just because someone takes offence it doesn't make that person right and the unoffended wrong. I think the other thing that is being forgotten here is that the items causing offence are in a shop, the main aim of this shop is to entice people in to spend money, had there been a significant number of people who have been offended then surely that would have had a detrimental affect on the shops sales.
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Clooty Cap replied to PoliceScotlandShetland's topic in Shetland News
Would that be this seizure by any chance? http://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2013/08/21/two-jailed-for-three-years-and-nine-months-for-bringing-40000-worth-of-heroin-to-isles Doesn't really seem like a perfect example of the dogs proving their worth if that is the case you are speaking of, from the write up in the Times it would suggest that the dogs were along for the ride if they played any part in the seizure at all. Good old fashioned police work seemed to be the deciding factor in getting a result in this case. Would you say the dogs would be kept in service if they were to be funded from your annual budget rather than from charity, public and business funds?