Tashengurt
"With few exceptions, all my colleagues Police without prejudice or favour with the single goal of catching criminals."
"No. They can't. We get targets and priorities and taskings and then we Police."
It seems even when the criminals are stuck under the noses of Police (and others who are supposed to protect children) they ignore it or do nothing !
So before worrying about ID cards, why not bust the crims that are in front of you ? Even the Ch of South Yorkshire Police was squirming.
And since you refuted the suggestion that race plays a part, from the BBC report:-
"The inquiry team noted
fears among council staff of being labelled "racist" if they focused on victims' descriptions of the majority of abusers as "Asian" men."
"It lays out how Rotherham Council and the police knew about the level of child sexual exploitation in the town, but didn't do anything about it. They either didn't believe what they were being told, played it down, or were too nervous to act. The failures, the report says, are blatant."
BBC News - Rotherham child abuse scandal: 1,400 children exploited, report finds
From this thread
http://www.pprune.org/jet-blast/5463...ll-learnt.html