Some say it was because wooden crates often floated ashore after a shipwreck with chickens surviving despite them being unable to fly or swim. It’s hard to find evidence for why such superstitions evolved. Another was that the cock tattoo on a right foot would prevent drowning. A cock on the right, never lose a fight” was one saying about where to put sailor tattoos. One other thought on this topic is that chickens had a superstitious meaning at sea. However, now it means an academy on land instead of constrained into the middle of a ship at sea.Ĭockpit meanwhile somehow elevated way beyond the aspiring midshipman into the place on a vessel for command and control, such as the nose of an airplane or aft area of a sailboat. Today midshipman is still a term used to describe the entry level role for someone who wants to become commissioned as a naval officer. The 1862 Man-o-War “ Midshipman’s Diary: Cockpit Journal” makes this fairly plain to see. The word “pit” likely referenced the midship again, where work was done or maybe also because the decks of a ship were lower versus high stern and bow. The middle of the ship where an aspirational officer apprentice would roam like a proud chicken of the sea… thus probably generated the term “cockpit”.
An apprentice or servant was called a cocc (“one who strutted like a cock”) That aspirational role seems to be where an old English term from the 17th century comes into play. In the 18th century the title of midshipman transitioned to anyone who was a candidate for a commission on a ship.įrom there the term midshipman came to mean an apprentice officer on a ship, someone who aspired for promotion. Click to enlarge and find the midships label. Source: University of Wisconsin, Madison. You’re far more likely to see crimes taking place in broad daylight with no response.Īround the 17th century (1600s) an experienced seaman was rated as “ midshipman” because of the location of his duty, or his compartment below deck - it was the middle of the ship or midship for short.
Go ahead and try to find a police officer in public in San Francisco. If there’s one thing I’ve noticed about San Francisco police, it’s that you NEVER see them just out and about for a walk, like grabbing a sandwich or cup of coffee to be part of community. “Bobbies on beat” seems like what Robert Peel intended in 1829 when he came up with the idea of modern city police, as the original Bobbie. While forces nationwide are spending more money on “the latest artificial intelligence to predict crime patterns”, the findings “underline the effectiveness of old-fashioned policing”, wrote Hamilton. West Midlands police reported a 14% drop in street crimes and antisocial behaviour following patrols in Birmingham. Operation Rowan in Bedfordshire “involved patrols of 15 minutes each day in 30 hotspot areas where a third of the county’s serious violent crime was taking place”, said The Times’ crime editor Fiona Hamilton.The patrols were credited for a 38% reduction in violence and robbery. Other patrol schemes have got similar results. The Youth Endowment Fund analysis of an Essex Police pilot in Southend-on-Sea in summer 2020 found that violent crime fell by 74% on days when patrols took place. Just 15 minutes of police patrols can reduce levels of violent crime by more than 70%, according to a new study. The latest data shows even 15 minutes could be enough to impact crime levels.
Unlike riding around in cages behind darkened glass to scan identities from afar, or sitting in a room of billion dollar blinking lights ready to zoom in like it’s 1968 again, police walking around street level engaging with community seem to bring a profound reduction of crime.īack in 2016 the data suggested it took only 20 minutes.īobbies on the beat really do prevent serious crime and police could cut thousands of assaults each year simply by sending officers to problem areas for just 21 minutes a day, a Cambridge University study suggests…
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