>#Our failing police forces are being torn down by wokery
>It is vital that the next Prime Minister makes the police get back to basics, dealing with burglaries rather than politics
>SUSAN HALL
>8 August 2022 • 1:33pm
>I’ve been closely following the Conservative Leadership race, as so many of us have, and found myself particularly intrigued and encouraged by Liz Truss’s policing and crime plan, especially when she said: “It’s time for the police to get back to basics and spend their time investigating real crimes, not Twitter rows and hurt feelings.” She also stated that she would impose a crackdown on police forces that spent taxpayers’ money training officers on “identity politics”.
>Those words have a fresh resonance today, as a Telegraph investigation reveals that police forces have failed to solve a single theft in more than eight out of 10 neighbourhoods in England and Wales over the past three years.
>For too long, the police have lost their focus on fighting and solving crime, having instead been distracted by other issues. We are seeing the results of that starkly in London, where the Sanction Detection Rate (Crimes Solved) is far too low. For Robbery it is 7.8 per cent, for Residential Burglary it is 4 per cent, for Theft or Taking of a Motor Vehicle it is 1.3 per cent, for Theft from a Motor Vehicle it is 0.8 per cent and for Theft from Person it is 0.5 per cent.
>People might therefore assume that such figures have caused the recent drop in public confidence in the Met Police, but the truth is that it has been in decline for more than half a decade. It hovered in the high sixties up until March 2017 when 69 per cent of Londoners had confidence in the police and since then it has been on a continuous downward trajectory, with the latest figure of 49 per cent.
>To understand this decline, we must ask ourselves what is the purpose of the police? For me, it is to prevent and solve crimes. Yet we now have a system whereby people report crime and don’t get justice; the police record it and swiftly move on to recording the next crime. This is shown by the number of crimes screened out in 2021 standing at 252,839. It was 83,449 in 2015. It appears their priorities are elsewhere.
>Meanwhile, police departments continue to use resources to record non-crime hate incidents. These often include reports of people simply being offended by something rather than an actual crime taking place. An example being former Home Secretary Amber Rudd’s speech to the Conservative Party Conference, in which she suggested tightening rules that allow UK firms to recruit workers from overseas, being treated as hate incident. The Met records thousands of “non-crime hate incidents”. How can this be justified when the real crime figures are so bad?
>The Met spends around £2.2m on roles with the words “inclusion”, “diversity” or “equality” in the job title. These roles include warranted police officers. Furthermore, the Met’s Stride Action Plan 2022-2023 says that all police staff, police officers and special constables will take part in workshops and e-learning to “build their confidence in having diversity and inclusion conversations”.
>Whilst Met officers are required to undertake this training, it seems they are not required to make arrests. In the year up to March 2022, 22,753 police officers made no arrests. There were 33,566 officers at that time, meaning an astonishing 68 per cent of them did not make a single arrest.
>Yes, it is undoubtedly important to actively pursue a better understanding of diversity and inclusion but it increasingly appears that the focus of the police is moving away from preventing and solving crimes. This is a dangerous trend that should be dealt with.
>That is why I support Liz’s announcement of a return to league tables and the requirement of a police officer to attend every burglary. If forces won’t act on their own, then they should be instructed to do so. Sadly, the biggest barrier to reform in London will be Sadiq Khan, who has steered policing away from crime fighting and towards identity politics.
>The recent HMICFRS ruling, effectively putting the Met Police into special measures, has shown that the nation’s leading police force, which should set an example, is failing to get the basics right. As Sadiq Khan is responsible for the “totality of policing” in London, it is clear that this is also his failure.
>Now it is more vital than ever that whoever becomes our next Prime Minister ensures that policing gets back to basics.
Woke – AAVE for consciousness about racial discrimination within US legal and political systems – even with current appropriation it refers to social consciousness. So, training police in how to support everyone in our country is somehow a bad thing? Such awareness is vital in prevention of crime.
Oooooh the wokery responsible for tearing down our police force? You mean the Tory cuts and lack of investment since 2010?
What police force? Theresa May sacked half the nation’s police in her 2nd term.
‘wokery’ is just a modern spin on ‘the enemy within’ narrative which has been trotted out since time immemorial.
Imagine looking at the behaviour of police forces over the last few years and reaching the conclusion that they’re *too* woke…
A police service merely reflects the wishes of the local population, it used to be the police committee now it is the local police commissioner.
The police are always treading a tightrope, where they will get criticised for doing to much or not doing enough.
The conservative party cutting police numbers and budgets does not help, that is do more for less money.
They need support and not condemnation for whatever action they take.
…and our entire way of life is being destroyed by right wing cunts that read the Telegraph, but hey lets just ignore why society is falling apart at the seams for a moment and get the police to give them all a damn good kicking down at the nick.
I’m not even going to read drivel from the Torygraph. The only thing that’s “torn down” Police forces are successive Tory governments from Cameron onwards. Remember the promises of no cuts to frontline police officer numbers? The Winsor report, Theresa May as Home Sec, telling the Federation it was “crying wolf” just before 22,000 frontline officers were cut?
That – and putting a Government pawn in charge of the Met – is what’s torn down Police forces, long before this ludicrous culture war and whining about “wokery” darkened our doors.
Oh look, The Telegraph is a moronic propaganda shitrag. Surprising nobody
Right-wingers: “Immigrants are doing all the crimes!”
Also right-wingers: “Stop spending time writing down who’s doing all the crimes, it’s making it hard for us to villainise foreigners.”
> 22,753 police officers made no arrests.
Right-wingers love this stat, it feeds into their self-induced panic about crime, which is the basis for their desperate pursuit of authoritarianism.
People on this sub:
Wokeness doesn’t exist and even of it does it’s only about helping people and definitely not arresting people for Twitter comments and even if it is those people deserved to be arrested anyway because they are racist misogynists.
The police force is fine just underfunded and can be trusted on such matters but also it’s filled with Wayne couzens buddies
Look over there JK Rowling is eating children!!
Ahh, that explains it. I suppose it’s nothing to do with the vicious cuts in funding and number of staff then?
Oh, does that mean those right old meanie weanie wokery wokists are also the reason the NHS is a crumbling mess, the education sector is laughable, etc? Well golly gosh darn it
Education on identity politics is vital.
Those who identify as a trans individual are more likely to be a victim of violent assault, sexual assault and discrimination.
Having officers who understand that and are able to support an incredibly vulnerable group of people is key.
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>#Our failing police forces are being torn down by wokery
>It is vital that the next Prime Minister makes the police get back to basics, dealing with burglaries rather than politics
>SUSAN HALL
>8 August 2022 • 1:33pm
>I’ve been closely following the Conservative Leadership race, as so many of us have, and found myself particularly intrigued and encouraged by Liz Truss’s policing and crime plan, especially when she said: “It’s time for the police to get back to basics and spend their time investigating real crimes, not Twitter rows and hurt feelings.” She also stated that she would impose a crackdown on police forces that spent taxpayers’ money training officers on “identity politics”.
>Those words have a fresh resonance today, as a Telegraph investigation reveals that police forces have failed to solve a single theft in more than eight out of 10 neighbourhoods in England and Wales over the past three years.
>For too long, the police have lost their focus on fighting and solving crime, having instead been distracted by other issues. We are seeing the results of that starkly in London, where the Sanction Detection Rate (Crimes Solved) is far too low. For Robbery it is 7.8 per cent, for Residential Burglary it is 4 per cent, for Theft or Taking of a Motor Vehicle it is 1.3 per cent, for Theft from a Motor Vehicle it is 0.8 per cent and for Theft from Person it is 0.5 per cent.
>People might therefore assume that such figures have caused the recent drop in public confidence in the Met Police, but the truth is that it has been in decline for more than half a decade. It hovered in the high sixties up until March 2017 when 69 per cent of Londoners had confidence in the police and since then it has been on a continuous downward trajectory, with the latest figure of 49 per cent.
>To understand this decline, we must ask ourselves what is the purpose of the police? For me, it is to prevent and solve crimes. Yet we now have a system whereby people report crime and don’t get justice; the police record it and swiftly move on to recording the next crime. This is shown by the number of crimes screened out in 2021 standing at 252,839. It was 83,449 in 2015. It appears their priorities are elsewhere.
>Meanwhile, police departments continue to use resources to record non-crime hate incidents. These often include reports of people simply being offended by something rather than an actual crime taking place. An example being former Home Secretary Amber Rudd’s speech to the Conservative Party Conference, in which she suggested tightening rules that allow UK firms to recruit workers from overseas, being treated as hate incident. The Met records thousands of “non-crime hate incidents”. How can this be justified when the real crime figures are so bad?
>The Met spends around £2.2m on roles with the words “inclusion”, “diversity” or “equality” in the job title. These roles include warranted police officers. Furthermore, the Met’s Stride Action Plan 2022-2023 says that all police staff, police officers and special constables will take part in workshops and e-learning to “build their confidence in having diversity and inclusion conversations”.
>Whilst Met officers are required to undertake this training, it seems they are not required to make arrests. In the year up to March 2022, 22,753 police officers made no arrests. There were 33,566 officers at that time, meaning an astonishing 68 per cent of them did not make a single arrest.
>Yes, it is undoubtedly important to actively pursue a better understanding of diversity and inclusion but it increasingly appears that the focus of the police is moving away from preventing and solving crimes. This is a dangerous trend that should be dealt with.
>That is why I support Liz’s announcement of a return to league tables and the requirement of a police officer to attend every burglary. If forces won’t act on their own, then they should be instructed to do so. Sadly, the biggest barrier to reform in London will be Sadiq Khan, who has steered policing away from crime fighting and towards identity politics.
>The recent HMICFRS ruling, effectively putting the Met Police into special measures, has shown that the nation’s leading police force, which should set an example, is failing to get the basics right. As Sadiq Khan is responsible for the “totality of policing” in London, it is clear that this is also his failure.
>Now it is more vital than ever that whoever becomes our next Prime Minister ensures that policing gets back to basics.
Woke – AAVE for consciousness about racial discrimination within US legal and political systems – even with current appropriation it refers to social consciousness. So, training police in how to support everyone in our country is somehow a bad thing? Such awareness is vital in prevention of crime.
Oooooh the wokery responsible for tearing down our police force? You mean the Tory cuts and lack of investment since 2010?
What police force? Theresa May sacked half the nation’s police in her 2nd term.
‘wokery’ is just a modern spin on ‘the enemy within’ narrative which has been trotted out since time immemorial.
Imagine looking at the behaviour of police forces over the last few years and reaching the conclusion that they’re *too* woke…
A police service merely reflects the wishes of the local population, it used to be the police committee now it is the local police commissioner.
The police are always treading a tightrope, where they will get criticised for doing to much or not doing enough.
The conservative party cutting police numbers and budgets does not help, that is do more for less money.
They need support and not condemnation for whatever action they take.
…and our entire way of life is being destroyed by right wing cunts that read the Telegraph, but hey lets just ignore why society is falling apart at the seams for a moment and get the police to give them all a damn good kicking down at the nick.
I’m not even going to read drivel from the Torygraph. The only thing that’s “torn down” Police forces are successive Tory governments from Cameron onwards. Remember the promises of no cuts to frontline police officer numbers? The Winsor report, Theresa May as Home Sec, telling the Federation it was “crying wolf” just before 22,000 frontline officers were cut?
That – and putting a Government pawn in charge of the Met – is what’s torn down Police forces, long before this ludicrous culture war and whining about “wokery” darkened our doors.
Oh look, The Telegraph is a moronic propaganda shitrag. Surprising nobody
Right-wingers: “Immigrants are doing all the crimes!”
Also right-wingers: “Stop spending time writing down who’s doing all the crimes, it’s making it hard for us to villainise foreigners.”
> 22,753 police officers made no arrests.
Right-wingers love this stat, it feeds into their self-induced panic about crime, which is the basis for their desperate pursuit of authoritarianism.
People on this sub:
Wokeness doesn’t exist and even of it does it’s only about helping people and definitely not arresting people for Twitter comments and even if it is those people deserved to be arrested anyway because they are racist misogynists.
The police force is fine just underfunded and can be trusted on such matters but also it’s filled with Wayne couzens buddies
Look over there JK Rowling is eating children!!
Ahh, that explains it. I suppose it’s nothing to do with the vicious cuts in funding and number of staff then?
Oh, does that mean those right old meanie weanie wokery wokists are also the reason the NHS is a crumbling mess, the education sector is laughable, etc? Well golly gosh darn it
Education on identity politics is vital.
Those who identify as a trans individual are more likely to be a victim of violent assault, sexual assault and discrimination.
Having officers who understand that and are able to support an incredibly vulnerable group of people is key.