#Chief Constable

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"V for Vendetta" - Alan Moore and David Lloyd

[johnbrace]

Merseyside Police and Crime Panel (Knowsley Council) 7th February 2024 P...

[tonyrossmcmahon]

Police raids of clubs in the 1980s and 1990s

Night clubs in the 1980s and 1990s were often subjected to police raids for various reasons as TV historian Tony McMahon recalls

Being told to stand still. The lights going up. The police entering in large numbers. Frisking. Individuals led away. Court appearances reported in the newspapers. Venues shut down. Such was the world of police raids of clubs in the 1980s and 1990s. The criminalisation of having a good time. Not that there were never grounds for raids, but one suspected the police officers got a special buzz out…

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[chernobog13]

The main characters of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

[inposterumcumgaudio]

How does a mustache go through a wellies mask?

You know, I started answering this on the presumption that it was just one of those Left 4 Dead rescue closet things where you're not supposed to question this too hard or examine the logistics too closely. Obviously the Happy Face mask defies the physics of what we know and therefore must be made of some Wellingtonian miracle material that allows it to move with the face while also being stiff enough to force a smile and (theoretically) house electronics for further happiness enforcement.

(I also started answering this thinking it'd be a quickie, which is why I let it jump the queue, but then I went and made four gifs for it. lol.)

But actually, this does have an answer. A nicely nuanced answer even!

"How does a mustache go through a wellies mask?"

It doesn't. For most Wellies, it's just stuck on.

Murray: Is that a silly Nick Lightbearer mustache you're wearing?

Nick: Sir?

Murray: Against regulations. Take it off. I won't have staff acting like that cheeky, good-for-nothing--

Aside from this little bit of insight from Lightbearer, this is one of those things where I kind of feel like the nuts and bolts of the game's design can inform and speak on the content.

Which is to say, with very little exception, Wellies and Wastrels are frankensteined together out of a small stock of randomized parts. You literally could have a Wellie and Wellette paper doll like in How to Be Happy because that's precisely how an NPC is built in the game.

You start with a base (Wellie or Wastrel, male or female), give them a skin color, give them an outfit appropriate to their location, a hairstyle, and then you can accessorize with hats, glasses, and (for the men, Nick Lightbearer fans, or that one girl in the peep show booth at the Reform Club) a mustache. And that all works very well with the game's commentary on social conformity. How fun!

And if this is true, then most Wellies don't have mustaches under their masks because the base model Wellie doesn't (in fact, the base model Wellie doesn't have a maskless model at all, which will be important here in a second.)

That's kind of a tenuous answer, but I can do you one further on it.

So in the game, we rarely ever see anyone remove their mask. And when we do, it's almost always off screen. There are exactly four times this happens in the whole of the game:

When our main characters do it, it's always as prelude to spinning out of the first person camera we've known the entire game and into third so we can finally see them as they are rather than as who they've presented themselves to be.

The fourth and last time we see masks being taken off is here, at the end of the epilogue. And as you can clearly see, we don't actually see the masks coming off the faces because the models don't have maskless faces. The cinema trick of using the next shot to bridge the gap still tells the story without actually showing that though. (You can also see here that though their faces have masks, being part of their base model, some of their hair - a separate object attached - didn't spawn in, leaving them bald).

But the first - and only time - we physically see a character remove his mask, he just so happens to have a mustache.

So... you're going to have to listen to my dissertation on the use of illusion in videogmes because I've already decided to talk about it and I've got the visual aides together when I thought there actually wasn't a clear answer to the question of mustaches. But if you didn't like that kinda thing, you wouldn't be here so.

Look carefully at how Chief Constable Peters removes his mask. Both hands from the left side. Try it out for yourself; it's fucking awkward isn't it?

When Arthur removes his mask, he does so with both hands on either side of his face. When Sally does it, it's with one hand from the top. But again, we only see these from the first person view.

Peters removes his mask in this way because he's actually performing a magic trick. Not, like, narratively. It's game dev slight of hand.

Two things are happening in this split second:

First, Peters' model is being swapped for his alternate without a mask. I'm fairly certain the entire model is being swapped and not just the texture because the masks do have shape of their own when sculpted onto the characters. Arthur, Sally, and Victoria also have two separate models for when they're wearing their masks or not and Peters does as well. Here, those models of Peters are being swapped, but the only discernible difference between them is where his mask would lie, so he's obscuring that line with his hands so the swap is otherwise imperceptible. (When Arthur remembers Peters at the train station a few moments later, then it's just the texture (the coloring) being eased into the younger version of Peters' same maskless model.)

Second, a physical object of Peters' mask is also magically appearing behind his hands so that he can now be holding it.

And this is where we get our answer.

Peters does have a unique model for his mask and as we can see, there's molding inside to accommodate his mustache but it remains solid. So there's a fake mustache on the front and room for his real one underneath.

You know what though? Peters complains that his mask is itchy. And despite hours in the game, we never hear that complaint from anyone else. Wastrels console themselves that they don't have to wear that stupid mask anymore and there's that letter to Uncle Jack about the husband who won't take it off to go to sleep and how weird it is, but we never hear complaints about the comfort of the masks from anyone else but Peters.

Peters' mask is also custom. Wellies all share the same face because they buy stock masks. To have a custom one is a bit of a status symbol normally. But why would a chief constable need a custom mask?

For the same reason he'd wear a mustache under one.

It is narratively important that Peters removes his mask at this point in the game, when Arthur has finally arrived at the crossroads of the rest of his life. That he does is a signal to Arthur that there are no pretenses here; that this is the point where he may choose to remove his own mask as well.

Chief Constable Peters wears a mustache under his mask because his mustache is part of who he actually is. Before the tanks, before the Executive Committee, before the day at the train station, Peters knew who he was then and remains one of the only people in Wellington Wells who has never lost sight of who he is since. He uses this power now to help people see who they are, regardless of who they find themselves to be. This is why he gives you the choice of Oblivion at the end.

Y'see, some people find they are stronger than they ever supposed. Some people can let go of the confabulations that have comforted them. Some make choices that surprise even themselves. But perhaps these people are not you.

And so, a mustache even if its itchy.

[respocked]

Why does a Bajoran policeman know how to fly a federation runabout? Do you think Quark offers online courses in the holosuites?

[contributing-a-verse]

Just watched What Lies Buried and excuse while I go sob.

Lowkey I already loved Giles bc he ignores Murdoch's Main Character-ness and is like 'can you please give me Evidence and not just a gut feeling pls' and as soon as it is proved that Julia was being framed, he fully helped them like.

I love him. I love Hodge. I love them both.

But legit Giles is prob the most Fascinating character so far, actor being amazing with his microexpressions oh my gosh. I want so much more of him dammit.

[majoresca]

About "Constable Myles" and his execution of work in the Enchanted Feast episode.

A magic user that he never even heard of, approaches the royal family and showers them with gifts. The youngest princess doesn't feel comfortable around her, and even suspects that something is wrong.

And does Constable Myles, head of the guard, do anything about it?

Where is the head of the guard?!

Constable Myles! THIS IS YOUR JOB! WHERE ARE YOU?! ASK FOR HER IDENTITY, WHO IS SHE, WHERE DID IT COME FROM?

WHAT KIND OF GUARD CHIEF LET A STRANGER HE HAS NEVER SEEN IN HIS LIFE, GET SO CLOSE FROM THE PEOPLE HE IS SUPPOSED TO BE PROTECTING FROM?!

Then King Roland II has the courage to say that Cedric is the only incompetent in the castle.

If Cedric was supposed to take the road to the countryside with a flying carriage, he should be kind, and give the head of the guard a ride also away from the castle.

"Inconstant Myles" should be first on the dismissal list! If he had been with the royal family in most situations, many things would have been avoided. What? Wasn't that part of his jurisdiction? King, I think it's time to review hiring by nepotism, or else, it will put the your majesty and his family at risk.

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[johnbrace]

Merseyside Police and Crime Panel (Knowsley Council) 7th February 2024 Part 1 of 2 (Supporting and Challenging the Commissioner (2024/25 Precept Notification))

[wattsandroot]

Confession: i always got these two confused for another (their name not appearance)

[walkingstackofbooks]

First half of season 1 is done - if you want to know what the crew of DS9 are most likely to call each other early on, look no further!

(This is VERY MUCH a work in progress, I don't expect to work any more on this for a week.)

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"URGE HABITUAL CRIMINALS BE GIVEN LIFE SENTENCES," Toronto Star. July 7, 1943. Page 34. --- Resolution Asking For Mandatory Term To Be Discussed by Police Chiefs --- A resolution asking mandatory life sentences for "habitual" criminals will be discussed today by the Chief Constables' association of Canada in convention at the Royal York hotel.

After delivering a paper in which he called the "repeater" criminal "the greatest menace to the war effort," Chief Constable Samuel Newhall of Peterboro presented the resolution. It urged that any man convicted twice within a five-year period for any major crime such as shopbreaking, safebreaking, armed robbery and picking pockets, be held in penitentiary for life; that no judge or magistrate be allowed to give bail to any repeater criminal until after the preliminary hearing and that no concurrent sentence be allowed a prisoner who commits a crime while he is out on bail.

The resolution, if acted upon, would be similar to the Baums law in U.S., upon which third offenders are given life sentences.

In his address Chief Newhall explained the mandatory life sentence would not be urged for those "of weak moral fibre who are carried away by sudden temptation."

Drop Stupid Methods "The punishment of crime falls short of what it should be," he declared. "We should shake free once and for all from the present stupid methods applied in the punishment of crime."

The war effort meant nothing to the habitual criminal who doesn't hesitate to steal victory bonds and won't work at any war work when he is released from penitentiary, Chief Newhall added.

"A stronger backbone is needed to reduce the cost of crime to this country," he declared. "When I see a prisoner getting a light sentence, I feel they are not getting British justice. I often wonder if judges and magistrates take into consideration what crime does to the victim.

"There is no need for any man today to be in crime to make a living. The habitual criminal seldom reforms. Whoever heard of a pick- pocket or safebreaker reforming: I never did."

Thirty Convictions Chief Constable D. C. Draper, of Toronto, said the convention should turn its complete attention to the resolution. He told of the recent release of a man with a record of 30 convictions. "Think of a man of this type being allowed to ply his trade in this country," he said. "This type won't work. Why should they prey on society?" He urged the convention to attempt "to put teeth into legislation to force the issue possibly through selective service."

George A. Shea, secretary of the association, said the remission branch at Ottawa was doing the best job possible under the circumstances. He urged that when chiefs of police learn what efforts are being made to have a convict paroled they should communicate their views.

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“Long dismissed as children's stories or 'myths' by Westerners, Australian Aboriginal stories have only recently begun to be taken seriously for what they are: the longest continuous record of historic events and spirituality in the world.” ― Karl-Erik Sveiby, Treading Lightly: The Hidden Wisdom of the World's Oldest People

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“The Dreaming is now. The Dreaming is always; forever; it circles around and around. It never ends. It's always happening, and us mob, we're part of it, all the time, everywhere, and every-when too.” ― Kate Constable, Crow Country

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“If they follow the way of Money Chiefs, they shall die. Earth is sick and can no longer care for her children. Now, Earth’s children must care for Earth. Continue to pollute rivers and oceans – rivers and oceans shall drown you. Pollute sky – Sun Spirit shall burn you. Kill more trees – unclean air shall strangle you. Kill more Spirits – disease shall destroy you. Already, Money Chiefs’ skin burns. Their lungs choke on unclean air. Poisoned water spreads disease among them and all Spirits. Rising rivers and oceans shall sweep their homes and lives away. Money Chiefs think money heals broken lives. Unchanged, in the end, Money Chiefs’ money shall cost them their lives. -Frederic Perrin Rella Two Trees―The Money Chiefs” ― Frédéric Perrin

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