Despite an allegedly great need for there to be police officers on the streets at this time of plague, it’s interesting and indeed worrying to know just what the Metropolitan Police’s real priorities are. Are the Met worrying about and allocating officers to protect the vulnerable or to protect supply lines or deal with those criminals who may see the current emergency as an opportunity to commit more crime such as theft, burglary and other offences? It would be nice to think wouldn’t it that the shuttered shops, pubs and restaurants are being protected by London’s ‘finest’ whilst these business owners are excluded from their premises?
I had a number of hopes when this emergency started that those officers curently working in useless or pointless departments or carrying out equally useless and pointless tasks would be redeployed and end up doing something useful. Unfortunately for Londoners, that is not what the Metropolitan Police are doing.
One group of waste of space and resources police officers that have not been deployed to any more useful area are those officers from Sadiq ‘Saracen’ Khan’s ‘Hate Crime Unit’ vanity project. This ‘Hate Crime Unit’ has cost the taxpayers of both London and the nation as a whole approximately £1.7M since its inception when Khan became Greater London’s Mayor. This unit has mostly been deployed not in stopping genuine violence, of which there is loads in London, but in going after those who utter or allegedly utter ‘hurty words’ towards members of groups that have ‘protected characteristics’. This unit has also gone for me for allegedly ‘insulting’ a high profile Muslim activist whose groups have also been in receipt of vast amounts of public money and which have produced very little of genuine social value.
An officer, whose name appears to be Police Constable Paul, has fronted up a video from the Metropolitan Police all about ‘hate crime’, showing that even during an emergency when we are told that all hands are required on deck to fight the Chinese Covid19 virus, the Met Police is still obsessed with ‘thought crimes’. You can watch the video via the Twitter link below.
https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk/status/1243817603166019585
I don’t know about you but I’m incredibly disgusted that officers who should be redeployed to more vital areas are still operating Khan’s dangerous and oppressive vanity project in the form of his ‘hate crime unit’. That the Met can find resources to run this entity but cannot stop the massive number of stabbings and gang violence that occurs in London should tell us all we need to know about the utter uselessness of the Met and those who manage it.
It’s interesting to note that this short video has been praised and retweeted by Islamic groups like Tell Mama (current public funding well over £1m) but has been mocked and derided by ordinary British subjects. That should tell us a fair bit about the lack of public support for Khan’s ‘hate crime’ vanity project and thought police officers like PC Paul. The comments on the Twitter feed that followed the video are overwhelmingly negative and there is much anger at the police and much vehemently expressed derision for them because of this latest ‘thought crime’ video from the Met.
Those who are criticising the Met for putting out this video and keeping the ‘hate crime unit’ open at a time when more officers may be needed to do real police work are correct to do so. However what the critics are missing is the fact that the whole idea of ‘hate crimes’ is wrong in and of itself. ‘Hate crime’ laws do little to provide real protection to anybody but instead create different classes of people based around race, religion and sexuality that have greater rights under the law than those who do not have such characteristics. This in my view and the view of many others is an affront to the concept of equitable justice and are laws that are all too easily abused by activists and those with agendas as zero evidence is required to prosecute a ‘hate crime’, only the alleged ‘victim’s’ ‘perception’ is needed in order to arrest someone and bring a case against them. For the sake of justice, a justice that doesn’t sell or corrupt justice to benefit particular groups, these ‘hate crime’ laws need to be consigned to the history books.
When all this Covid19 panic is over Britain’s police forces are going to find that due to their overzealousness, they will have lost what remains of the support they once had from much of the public, including those who may have once been uncritical of the police. The actions of the Met and their dubious and dangerous ‘hate crime unit’ should also rightly come under public scrutiny as they are not part of the solution to London’s obvious policing issues, they are instead part of the problem. The Metropolitan Police has become an entity that is no longer fit for the purpose of protecting Londoners and that is something that should not just worry Londoners, but everyone else in the UK as well.
