Essex Police, who are in charge of an area that is not at all free of real crime, decided that they’d come out and virtue signal over Trans Day of Remembrance. They did this despite there being hardly any trans types murdered in the UK for being Trans. In addition to this inconvenient fact even in countries such as Brazil, where there are a lot of murders of trans types it is not conclusive that those murdered were killed because they were trans or whether it is because they were involved in prostitution or the drugs trade. In reality the claim made by various trans activist types that there are massive problems with trans people being murdered in the UK are untrue. Essex Police turned to virtue signal on the strength of information that most reasonable people would call a lie.
Shortly after Essex Police decided to go public on social media with their cringeworthy virtue signalling over a dishonest cause, a lot of people decided to go and call out Essex Police for getting involved with all this. People pointed out what I have said above which is that trans people are rarely murdered in the UK just for being trans and that even where there are murders of trans people overseas, it is very difficult if not impossible to say definitely that these people were murdered because of their trans status.
Unfortunately, as Paul Embery pointed out, the response of the police at being caught out by a group of trans activists pushing a line that is less than truthful was not to go quiet with embarrassment, or even to accept that they might have got things a little wrong. The response of Essex Police was to stop people voicing their opinion about their virtue signalling or stating unpalatable truths, by removing the ability of the public to comment on this force’s laughable virtue signalling. In addition to this, Essex Police put out a statement that threatened those who made negative comments about this issue with arrest and investigation.
Mr Embery put up this screenshot from Essex Police.
This is disgraceful yet typical behaviour from a police force that like so many others have been captured by activists. This force should have looked at the facts behind the claims of the trans activists and maybe not got involved as the claims that they are making are so shaky. Sadly they did not. The swallowed the claims of the trans activists hook line and sinker and when caught out threatened people who criticised them. It is cases like this that make an increasing number of ordinary Britons of whatever background, race, sex or sexuality they are ask the question: Whose police are they? Are they there for all of us or are they only there for groups of particularly loud and well connected activists even if the claims that these activists make are unsubstantiated?
The thread on Mr Embery’s feed on this issue contains people who quite rightly in my view are complaining about Essex Police’s ‘cowardice’ in turning off comments and comparing this force’s eagerness to engage in this sort of virtue signalling whilst the county experiences what is said to be a crime wave. What we have here is indeed cowardice by the police. It’s disgusting that whilst people live in fear of burglary, assault and other serious crimes, a force like that of Essex can not only expend resources on utter bollocks like this but threaten the public with arrest if they criticise the police’s actions.
Police forces are a necessity for a civilised society, but we deserve to have police forces that are not politically biased and which are sensible and impartial. Essex Police are plainly not the sort of police that the people of Essex deserve.
Yes, of course, I do understand the sentiment, but isn’t the real question how far the current Criminal Justice system is effective in general in combatting crime of all kinds and suitably punishing the perpetrators and providing security to the victims? The police are only the front line, and it’s debatable whether their lack of funding, competition with private security companies, or the apparent ‘PC agenda’ is really to blame?
To neutralise the influence of crime apparently paying in societies with relatively high unemployment rates, employment insecurity, high housing costs, also requires genuine citizen co-operation?
Agree that this is not just a police problem but one that affects the entire criminal justice system as a whole. Granted the police have been underfunded but if they’ve got time and the resources for this sort of thing then it undermines claims of lack of funds. I don’t see how the police are competing with private security companies as these companies do not employ warranted police officers and only have the powers of arrest that the average British subject has. I certainly agree with you that neutralising crime does require a whole society approach but when police forces, which are the backbone and the ultimate back up for such an approach, fail to be there for the communities that are suffering real crime and instead engage in dodgy virtue signalling like this, then it undermines both trust and confidence in the police.
Why don’t all the Trannies move to MiddleSEX? I’m sure they’d be welcome there.