With the coverage of recent London terrorist bombing and shooting of an (presumbly) innocent man, Scotland Yard is getting more and more exposure. In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes fictions, Scotland Yard is being portraited as hopelessly incompetent. Well unfortunately, that was the impression left on me since I read these novels in my teenage years. I don't know about you guys. What do you have learned about Scotland Yard, from real life experiences, or in novels and movies?
Was he proven to be innocent, or just unrelated to the previous two bombings? He acted quite suspiciously by evading police and jumping into a subway car when the city was very tense about subway bombings.
OK, change "innocent man" to "man appeared unrelated to the bombing". Fair enough? Let me tell you it's not my intention to bash Scotland Yard, but I genuinely want to know what others think of them.
I am yet to visit the site, may be one day when it's not cloudy or gloomy in London (which might be never, so it would be a perfect excuse not to visit ) Anyways, I prefer Ireland.
Well I read the books too and I found Scotland Yard to be inept. But then again, they were dealing with a mastermind criminal... Scotland Yard is the same as any other police division in my mind. Makes mistakes and also does things right. They probably profile people too in their heads just like L.A. cops.
I was actually quite impressed by Scotland Yard admitting their very probable mistake. In Bush' and Big texx's world this news would be buried as long as possible with denials as they would rationalize it as hurting Bush's opinion polls, or the war on terror which to them are one and the same.
