And predictably, the Met Police are grovelling in the light of this critiscism:
The Metropolitan Police said last night that there would be no more patrols by lone plain-clothed officers in light of the methods used by Wayne Couzens to abduct Sarah Everard.
Sir Stephen House, the Met's deputy commissioner, added that warrant cards may not be enough for officers to prove their identity in future.
So, is it really unsafe for police to arrest women now? Well, maybe. But maybe not for the women:
Two women were arrested last Sunday outside the City of Spice Indian restaurant near Dereham Road, Norwich.
The footage shows an officer kicking out at one of the women as she appeared to be helping her friend. At the same time the second woman was shouting at the officer “get off her” while also trying to allegedly grab his handcuffs.
Then a police van arrives with reinforcements and one of the officers takes a run up and kicks the woman who is standing.
Predictably, there's been howls of outrage at the fact that he's gone hands on with a female (without first declaring himself a female, or he'd be OK!) and the force has referred itself to the IOPC.
Do we want drunken sluts to be able to grapple with police officers and resist arrest with impunity? Because it appears that's the way we're heading...
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The problem is that due to the idleness, dishonesty and politically motivated policing that we've been subjected to over the years it's reasonable to say that the police are barely trustworthy.
We can't trust them to crack down on Islamic Rape Gangs, we can't trust them to police demonstrations equitably, we can't trust them to not let politics get in the way of policing we can't trust them to turn out to investigate burglaries and we can't trust them to keep the roads clear of eco terrorists. Come to think of it I'm not even sure that we can trust the police to say that only women possess a cervix. It's not too much of a stretch to say that we now also can't trust the police to not take advantage of vulnerable women.
A civilised nation requires a police force that is honest and trustworthy. The problem is that this is precisely what we don't have in Britain today.
Unless you are trying to be controversial for the sake of it, you can answer your own question without any outside help, love.
Not before time, vulnerable women have chosen to resist the filthy, Filth.
Inappropriate assignments of intimate work with women, and I use the word 'work' in its widest possible sense, our unwashed plod have only damaged public relations to a terminal stage. As if that wasn't bad enough, halitosis is as much a plod hallmark as a food/semen-stained uniform and either equally lethal to public confidence.
You could do better, JuliaM. Make a little extra effort and tell us what use plod are.
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How predictable Melvin. Sniping and snide but no solutions as usual.
Women criminals have a get out of jail free card now when being stopped (as I mentioned previously about Romanian gypsy vermin). Thank God for body cams.
Jaded
Coppers never seem to have a clue how to properly restrain people without rolling all over the pavement. You'd think they be taught some proper techniques.
That kick was beautiful though
Farenheit211 makes a good point spin things anyway you like but from now on who could blame a woman for not wanting to get into a car with a single policeman? Our so called police service has lost so much credibility it's hard to see how it will ever recover the respect of the public again.
The toilet stench wafting from your direction is revolting...excuse me whilst I flag down the next bus, WC Jaded.
That advice was for women Melvin, not nutters
Jaded
'Their' are odd times when you exhibit modest potential, WC Jaded. Gifted an intensive course in sentence structure and punctuation, you could certainly pass for 'educatid'...if a suitable drug cocktail can be found to stimulate that tiny, dormant wit.
"warrant cards may not be enough for officers to prove their identity in future."
But that's not actually the problem, is it? I mean, Everard was abducted by an actual, no shit, real, police officer. With a real Warrant Card with his real identity on it. He didn't hide it, he used his official position to enable his crime.
"...it's reasonable to say that the police are barely trustworthy."
If generalisation is bad in other areas (travellers are all thieves! Muslims are all paedophiles!) why is it somehow OK to generalise about the police?
"Not before time, vulnerable women have chosen to resist the filthy, Filth."
Ah, I see you're using the new definition of the word 'vulnerable' there, MTG... 🙄
"Women criminals have a get out of jail free card now when being stopped..."
Spot on!
"Coppers never seem to have a clue how to properly restrain people without rolling all over the pavement."
I've noticed that. Is it the new recruits? Or the training? It must be something...
"... spin things anyway you like but from now on who could blame a woman for not wanting to get into a car with a single policeman?"
Because it was a one-in-a-million instance? Because from now on, they might take seriously the rooting out of rotten apples in the force?
"But that's not actually the problem, is it? I mean, Everard was abducted by an actual, no shit, real, police officer. With a real Warrant Card with his real identity on it. "
Yes, exactly!
Julia not every pikey is a thief, there are Christian pikeys who try to live well but Pikeys are all too often accurately associated with thievery. Not every Muslim is a paedo rapist but the Muslim community produces a disproportional amount of paedo rapists. Some generalisations do have a grain of truth within them.
Whilst I'd be one of the first to say 'we need a decent police force staffed with decent people', it's also not wrong to say that the police, not just the Met, have failed the people in a number of areas and have become slaves to political correctness. Sadly the generalisation that the police have become thuggish enforcers of political correctness eager to follow orders no matter how mad or unsupported by the public is also based in truth.
Wayne Couzens was indeed a one in a million wrong 'un, but would he have been able to hide in the police for so long without some support or at least some blind eyes turned to some of the questionable behaviour that he was linked to? He should have been suspended pending investigation when the allegations of indecent exposure came to light against him. Sadly the Met allowed him to remain on duty and retain his warrant card, the same warrant card that he used to abduct Ms Everard. It is to be hoped that the Everard case will have the same influence on police forces as the Shipman case had on the GP sector of the NHS but at least in the short term I don't believe this will happen as long as Dick is still in charge of the Met.
I have found myself, as have too many others, being surprised when encountering a decent, thoughtful officer who is not bent or dodgy in some way. That should not and never should be the case.
"Ah, I see you're using the new definition of the word 'vulnerable' there, MTG... 🙄"
Be neither scared nor muddled, JuliaM. There isn't a new definition, dear! But I do understand that the precise legal definitions of vulnerable and non compos mentis, vis-à-vis trusts and wills, confuse and frighten those of a certain age.
I've noticed that. Is it the new recruits? Or the training? It must be something...
As Frank Herbert said, power does not corrupt; power attracts the corruptible.
In the case of British law “enforcement”, I suspect that the increasingly farcical policing has been increasingly attracting farcical police.
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