Greater Manchester police will not be sending letters to individuals banning them from attending Manchester’s Caribbean carnival this year after a legal challenge. GMP was accused of using “deeply racist” tactics last year after it issued a number of letters banning dozens of people from a Caribbean carnival event because they had been identified as “either a member of a street gang, affiliated to a street gang” or “perceived by others to be associated to a street gang”.
Apparantly, noticing the frequency with which members of a cultural group feature in certain crimes - and acting on it, as their victims are usually from the same cultural group - is 'deeply racist' now.
On 24 May 2023, the organisation Kids of Colour, supported by Liberty, sent a letter to GMP and Manchester city council (MCC), raising concerns that the bans were discriminatory. They alleged that a disproportionate number of black people and other people of colour were targeted.
Well, it wouldn't make much sense to ban people from other cultural groups just to even up the numbers, would it? But hey, I guess we can't be allowed to draw any conclusions about what we see daily in front of us, can we?
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And in case you're wondering, Reader, why I'm not linking to the 'Guardian's' story, for the symmetry, well, it's because it's unaccountably missing from their page...
Gosh! Memory holed so quickly these days...
I’m happy to be banned from all Caribbean festivals if the police want to send me a letter. I’ve policed about 25 Notting Hill carnivals in my time so it may be a bit late though
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Surely that is not Plods call. Sentencing is not in their remit. So if when sentenced for their crimes the judge said and you will be banned for attending these events for 10 years or so then that is fine. But Plod. fuck em.. They should stick to their roles.
ReplyDeletePlus there is the “perceived by others to be associated to a street gang”. Unbelievable, a catch all that means they target who they want even if the are innocent. Sounds like the Plod we all know and hate.
It wouldn't occur to inferior minds, stumbling through yet another daft 'plan', that vital opportunities to control the plague were already squandered. IMHO, a critical point was reached long ago, requiring plod to simply get out of the fuckin way of covert military intelligence; leaving these essential resources to find a permanent solution. And such must be expedited before these crises really get out of hand. Should such an effective solution be compromised by political inertia, the rest of the country can only share plods' kneeling destiny.
ReplyDeleteIt is well known amongst the real Policing community (that is anyone of the rank of Sergeant and below) that those of a melanin-enhanced pigmentation are most likely to cause violent bother in any form of street activity. Unfortunately they and anyone else with eyes and an IQ above that of a cabbage are not allowed to state such an obvious fact.
ReplyDeleteAsk me how I know this (after 28 years as a Police Officer).
"a disproportionate number of black people"
ReplyDeleteThey should've just banned a similar number of white people who wouldn't have been there anyway
"I’m happy to be banned from all Caribbean festivals if the police want to send me a letter."
ReplyDeleteHeh!
"Surely that is not Plods call. Sentencing is not in their remit."
To control public order is within their remit, though...
"Should such an effective solution be compromised by political inertia..."
Is there any such answer to anything that isn't crippled by that?
"Unfortunately they and anyone else with eyes and an IQ above that of a cabbage are not allowed to state such an obvious fact."
Not just not allowed, they are required to state the exact opposite!
"They should've just banned a similar number of white people who wouldn't have been there anyway"
Heh!