News/Newspaper Texts for Analysis

Miners Strikes and Hillsborough 'Orgreave' Enquire

The news article released in October 2012 focuses on the discovery of South Yorkshire Police cover ups at the Orgreave coke works and five years later at the Hillsborough disaster. The source originates from BBC News reporters so maintains no known form of bias against or for the police because the corporation is an independent body with high levels success and impartiality in their reporting for which they have only ever received very little criticism over the years.

How this recent particular article represents the police force is generally categorised as a 'negative' one. With the source the issue is that it deals with cases that existed around twenty five and thirty years ago, this means that the issues are of a historical context and anyone that was involved at the time may have now moved into others areas or be retired elderly people by now. The article delves into the polices' part in the striking and how many officers managed to get away without punishment back then. Adding to the negativity created around the police at the time was that to protect themselves from harsh criticism and potential unemployment, statements from many officers were made as a batch and officers that were involved in court all supported that it was the faults of the strikers solely to anything that occurred  This similarity also took place five years later with the Hillsborough disaster which is also a focal point in the history of the police and particularly South Yorkshire police.

As known through more recent reports discovered the police 'cover up' at Hillsborough was discovered and many officers from the time faced persecution and as another result the families of the ninety six who died found their justice that they had felt hard done by with for the last twenty five years. In an inadvertent way the contemporary police forces now are getting much criticism over the matters but it is arguable that there were not there and had no knowledge of what was going on. On the other hand they could have told to also keep the cover up going as time passed since the event.

In general analysis of how the police force look in the light of the event was not a positive one due to the immoral and near illegal cover up of these serious events in which many lives were lost. Even the actions of those officers nearly thirty years ago has backfired to nowadays to create a new negative image that the police are seen in especially with this being a big problem at the moment.