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[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

They say that in Heaven, all of the cops are British. Whoever said that isn’t alive today.

Britain has problems with anti-social behaviour, burglaries, rape, murders and grooming gangs. But no, let’s focus on harassing people who say things that the government doesn’t want them to say. A cousin of mine lives in England, and the local police station has said that it won’t prosecute burglaries, just file reports. Got to focus on all those racists, transphobes and Covid sceptics.

And it all makes sense when you consider that you don't need to be above a certain height, don’t need to be capable of running faster than a certain speed, don’t need to have a high IQ, and you don’t need to be strong in order to become a police officer in the UK. All you need is to go to college and a degree, and then hold a certain ideology. That’s right, you need to go to college to become a police officer in Britain. In Ireland and in most other countries, you just need to go to police academy, which is technically college, but it’s a college that is specific to law enforcement. So now you have a country where the majority of its police officers are physically weak and clueless as to how a healthy society is run. But don’t think that British people haven’t noticed, many of them have lost faith in the police.

So what does a British police station do when the public loses trust in them? More woke shit. Yeah, brilliant. I’m sure I would feel so safe if I lived in the UK, /s. No, the British police force is a joke. In fact, they are worse than useless. They have become a hindrance to the peace, because they’re no protecting criminals and beating protestors. And if you want even more reasons to hate the police, go watch the channel CrimeBodge on YouTube.

[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman🇬🇧🌳🟦 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

All correct, unfortunately.

What really stuck in my craw about the police was their unequal treatment of protesters during the height of the pandemic in the summer of 2020. People who were protesting against lockdowns were arrested and manhandled, as were women attending a vigil for Sarah Everard (who was herself murdered by a police officer), but when BLM activists filled Trafalgar Square to protest about a murder 4000 miles away the police stood by, took the knee and did nothing.

Since the murder of Stephen Lawrence the police have been terrified of doing anything that might incur the label 'racist', which is why investigations into the grooming gangs and paedophile rings in Rotherham and Rochdale were sat on for decades.

Add to that the introduction of Non-crime hate incidents that leave a black mark against your name in a criminal record check, and you leave British policing in a very sorry state indeed.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The double standards over the Sarah Everard and the George Floyd protests have exposed the police for the fraud institution they have become. They are worse than useless. And those non-crime hate incidents are just part of the poisonous icing on the turd cake. They say that British police officers used to be great, but now they’re just awful. Probably one of the worst police forces in the world right now.

I find it hilarious how the British establishment brags about being a free and open democracy and condemns the governments of Russia, Turkey, Belarus, Hungary, Poland, the United States and Venezuela for being authoritarian, when the UK has non-crime hate incidents and sends the bobbies to beat up protestors like in Belarus or China. British politicians and journalists have lost the right to condemn other countries for not being democratic enough when the UK has now become an authoritarian hellscape. And the police perpetuate this hellscape. Nobody in their right mind respects British police officers.