Why I despair for policing today: We need an urgent reset to restore order in the face of anarchy, writes former Chief Superintendent PHILIP FLOWER

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  1. It’s a good thing the mail and PHILIP FLOWER are here to tell us again of the imminent, yet also somehow centuries-old, arrival of anarchy and collapse of order.

  2. >Why I despair for policing today: We need an urgent reset to restore order in the face of anarchy,

    Does PHILIP FLOWER not compute that cutting thousands of police officers might also contribute to anarchy?

    Cuts which the Heil was more than happy to support.

  4. Are the police currently in a bad place? Yes

    Has it got worse over the last decade? Yes

    Was it great a decade ago? No

  5. He describes junior officers as the product of ‘a woke education system’ so I get the impression he would like to see a movement towards a US style of policing, where every challenging police situation that arises isnt met with deescalation tactics, but instead with a shocking level of violence and weaponry.

  6. Well people asked for them to be defunded.

    Little did you know. There were already doing that.

    You made that bed have fun with it.

  7. > Across the country, senior officers appear to have completely lost sight of their basic role: to catch and deter criminals. Their junior colleagues, the products of a woke education system, often have totally unrealistic notions of what their job entails. They are deployed without appropriate training — and often behave in ways that shame the force.

    Right… It’s the fault of “woke” officers.

    Nothing at all to do with the murderers in uniform, institutional racism, rampant corruption and covering up for criminals in government.

    Nah, none of that, it’s the people trying to build a relationship with the communities they’re policing that are apparently the problem?!?

    This jackass is the whole problem embodied in an individual. No wonder the Met fell so far with people like this in charge.

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