The police won’t protect you. They’ll protect their own rapist officers whilst refusing to solve burglaries. But if you post something mean about Nicola Sturgeon on social media, or sit on a park bench with a coffee in 2020, you’d spend a night in a cell.
Only you are responsible for your own safety.
Can’t help but feel they’re making things worse for themselves by apologising despite it being incredibly unclear there’s anything to apologise for. I don’t see how not arresting someone within 2/3 days of a report being made is some incredible failing given the shortages of police and the non-urgent nature of the matter. I think most people would understand that if the Met made that argument, but they seem to just be rolling over as if they’ve done something terribly wrong here.
The Met management love to get their names in the papers apologising for things. It’s a subtle way for them to blame their subordinates without taking any real responsibility for how ruined the police service, partly by them and partly by the government who they failed to stand up to.
> This number plate reported to the police three days before Sarah Everard’s murder
The reality is in the Met a crime won’t even be allocated to an investigating officer within three days. It can easily take more than a week to be allocated, and even then it can go to an officer with more on their plate then they can possibly manage effectively.
The SLT introduced an investigation model that was completely impossible to work with. They cut staff jobs. They cut officer numbers. They sold off stations. They decided emergency response team officers should carry and progress criminal investigations, sometimes far more serious investigations than they should, whilst juggling that responsibility with trying to answer 999 calls and provide a front line policing service. It is physically impossible to sit at a desk doing the admin required for a proper investigation whilst being sent out to a call every 10 minutes. All this whilst the public were and continue to rightly complain they don’t see a uniformed police presence on the streets. No one could work under those conditions. Police officers will actively do anything they can to avoid the risk of carrying an investigation now, because they know they can’t manage it safely.
I don’t know what else has to go wrong till people actually start listening to police officers who’s concerns are universally ignored by police management, the government and the public for decades.
> In tears, one of the McDonald’s workers who he exposed himself to was quite clear: “I had no-one contact me or ask for a statement. It was only after Sarah’s murder that I became involved. If he had been held accountable when we had reported the crime, we could have saved Sarah.”
It’s not clear if this was a worker from Kent or from London. If Kent then yes it is ridiculous they didn’t take a statement. If London then the officers literally haven’t had a chance to come and take a statement. Either way saying “we could have saved Sarah” sits so badly with me and will no doubt be exploited by the media. We really have no idea if the police could have saved Sarah. We don’t generally draw a line between outraging public decency jumping straight to rape and murder. You really cannot predict what a person is going to do in the future, and it’s dangerous to pretend anyone could.
The met covering for their rapist, murdering and child raping staff as always
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The police won’t protect you. They’ll protect their own rapist officers whilst refusing to solve burglaries. But if you post something mean about Nicola Sturgeon on social media, or sit on a park bench with a coffee in 2020, you’d spend a night in a cell.
Only you are responsible for your own safety.
Can’t help but feel they’re making things worse for themselves by apologising despite it being incredibly unclear there’s anything to apologise for. I don’t see how not arresting someone within 2/3 days of a report being made is some incredible failing given the shortages of police and the non-urgent nature of the matter. I think most people would understand that if the Met made that argument, but they seem to just be rolling over as if they’ve done something terribly wrong here.
The Met management love to get their names in the papers apologising for things. It’s a subtle way for them to blame their subordinates without taking any real responsibility for how ruined the police service, partly by them and partly by the government who they failed to stand up to.
> This number plate reported to the police three days before Sarah Everard’s murder
The reality is in the Met a crime won’t even be allocated to an investigating officer within three days. It can easily take more than a week to be allocated, and even then it can go to an officer with more on their plate then they can possibly manage effectively.
The SLT introduced an investigation model that was completely impossible to work with. They cut staff jobs. They cut officer numbers. They sold off stations. They decided emergency response team officers should carry and progress criminal investigations, sometimes far more serious investigations than they should, whilst juggling that responsibility with trying to answer 999 calls and provide a front line policing service. It is physically impossible to sit at a desk doing the admin required for a proper investigation whilst being sent out to a call every 10 minutes. All this whilst the public were and continue to rightly complain they don’t see a uniformed police presence on the streets. No one could work under those conditions. Police officers will actively do anything they can to avoid the risk of carrying an investigation now, because they know they can’t manage it safely.
I don’t know what else has to go wrong till people actually start listening to police officers who’s concerns are universally ignored by police management, the government and the public for decades.
> In tears, one of the McDonald’s workers who he exposed himself to was quite clear: “I had no-one contact me or ask for a statement. It was only after Sarah’s murder that I became involved. If he had been held accountable when we had reported the crime, we could have saved Sarah.”
It’s not clear if this was a worker from Kent or from London. If Kent then yes it is ridiculous they didn’t take a statement. If London then the officers literally haven’t had a chance to come and take a statement. Either way saying “we could have saved Sarah” sits so badly with me and will no doubt be exploited by the media. We really have no idea if the police could have saved Sarah. We don’t generally draw a line between outraging public decency jumping straight to rape and murder. You really cannot predict what a person is going to do in the future, and it’s dangerous to pretend anyone could.
The met covering for their rapist, murdering and child raping staff as always