Despite what some people may believe, I have never been anti-police per se. On the contrary I believe that a well trained, honest, impartial and well resourced police force is a necessity in a civilised country. My argument is not against the police as an institution but with how we are policed and in Britain we seem to be being policed inequitably and capriciously.
Every nation and every society has its wrong un’s, the ones who would steal, rob, assault and generally impinge on the rights of others. We call those who do such things criminals and it is these people who police forces should concentrate their resources on when it comes to making prioritisation decisions.
Unfortunately, since at least the time of the Blair government, Britain’s police forces have become less and less concerned with dealing with the real crime that bothers the average British subject and more concerned with political matters. We now have police forces that will prioritise an unpleasant comment by one person to another that occurs on Twitter but will downgrade a domestic burglary and often not even bother to investigate it.
I’m not the only person who believes this is wrong. Jack Ross says something similar on a short video published by Turning Point UK. He says that the British police have become a national embarrassment with their kneeling for BLM, their obsession with ‘hate speech’ and their operation of what is now a very obvious two tier policing system. Mr Ross is correct in his assessment of the poolice. The police should be concentrating their resources on those crimes that are the most bothersome to the public and not acting under the instructions of various identity politics groups to protect those who they say should be protected, even from mild criticism, whilst letting the rest of us go to hell.
I’ve a friend who’s been working in a major Farce for nearly twenty years. His integrity and honesty are off the scale, so I know anything he tells me is absolutely true – and I’m sure that he only tells me a fraction of what goes on. The things he has told me – and since day one – are sometimes blackly comic (although no comedy writer could ever dream them up) but mostly infuriating and frightening. Rank incompetence is the norm. The quality of new recruits was hardly high when he started and has continued to plummet. More worrying is the way they have been trained. The dwindling number of sergeants who even try to control their subordinates are defied and challenged to justify every order or request – they tell my friend this is what they are told to do in training, especially if sergeants are ‘male, pale and stale’. To describe them as a fifth column isn’t quite accurate as they are probably in a majority now.