Clickbait Mail

Love them or loathe them, 'audit' videos are undoubtedly a very interesting window on human behaviour and the ability - or usually lack thereof - of our police.

It's very difficult to know why people react so badly to lawfully-flown drones and why they so fervently - often violently - believe they own and control the airspace above their land-based property.

In some cases, the general public appearing are clearly just thugs with something to hide who react to any perceived slight with violence. 

A very revealing fact about the police is that a business spotting a drone brings immediate and often multi-unit responses. You don't get that for a burglary. The question is: why?

 

In others, it's an inability to accept they have no authority to do much of anything themselves if they feel something shouldn't be happening. 

Yet others - by far the majority and often seen on the videos to include police officers - just can't admit they are utterly ignorant of the topic they've just launched themselves into, nevertheless trying to assert they are experts, "used to be a lawyer" or "work in the industry" (all real examples).

I wasn't surprised, it has to be said, to find the Daily Mail have been driving their well-honed, increasingly journalist-free, AI-driven wedge into public opinion recently, when the ran this strap and invited people whose businesses had been "targeted" by auditors to get in touch - presumably so they could run more banshee-istic stories and get those all-essential clicks to drive up their profits.

 

Ironic that a right-wing, self-righteous newspaper that infamously supported Oswald Mosley, seeks to condemn auditors so that it can get millions of hateful clicks off the back of it all.