Can the (Met) police ever change?

[Cirrus]

West Mercia Police and Telford Council this time: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-61983584

 

[AuroraSaab]

Complete and utter dereliction of duty by the police as an organisation there. Absolutely shameful. And every officer involved will likely have retired by now and will never be called to answer for their neglect.

 

[Cirrus]

Complete and utter dereliction of duty by the police as an organisation there. Absolutely shameful. And every officer involved will likely have retired by now and will never be called to answer for their neglect.

And social care.....

 

[LCpl Boiled Egg]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...r-punching-handcuffed-black-child-in-the-face

This officer was serving in the firearms command, so does that mean he had the clearance to carry a gun? Words fail me.

 

[Deleted member 49]

I'm shocked....that they've admitted it 😲
https://goodlawproject.org/news/revelations-partygate-investigation/

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Further disgusting behaviour and misogyny exposed within the Met’s ranks. Three officers shared grossly offensive messages about women and disabled people with the cop who went on to kidnap, rape and murder Sarah Everard.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-62337670

 

[Deleted member 49]

Pretty shocking just to read...were supposed to actually trust them.

View: https://twitter.com/Fhamiltontimes/status/1552591480279236608?t=9SNcsdGOKitcyg_rRpMJkA&s=19

 

[mudsticks]

Further disgusting behaviour and misogyny exposed within the Met’s ranks. Three officers shared grossly offensive messages about women and disabled people with the cop who went on to kidnap, rape and murder Sarah Everard.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-62337670

Oh but it's nobbut a bit of workplace banter, right..??

People just need to get over themselves, and stop trying to act all PC all the time.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

I’m pleased to see that Sarah Everard’s murderer has had his challenge to his whole-life sentence rejected by the Court of Appeal.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62345010

Wayne Couzens has lost an attempt to overturn his whole-life term for the murder of Sarah Everard. ​

The ex-Metropolitan Police officer, who used his position to trick Ms Everard into his car, had challenged his sentence at the Court of Appeal.​

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But the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Burnett, said the crime was so exceptional the sentence should stand. ​

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The appeal was part of a major review of what type of rare murders should lead to a whole-life term.​

Under the law, judges must consider whole-life sentences in exceptional cases of murder - including double killings or crimes that are particularly sadistic. There are 59 killers currently spending their entire lives in jail.​

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Dismissing Couzens' appeal, Lord Burnett said the murder of Ms Everard had been "unspeakably grim".​

"This was, as the [sentencing] judge said, warped, selfish and brutal offending, which was both sexual and homicidal. ​

"It was a case with unique and extreme aggravating factors.​

"Chief amongst those, as the judge correctly identified, was the grotesque misuse of Couzens of his position as a police officer with all that connoted to facilitate Ms Everard's kidnap, rape and murder."​

 

[Bazzer]

Investigations Into more child strip searches 🙁

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-62342481

 

[newfhouse]

This one from Sussex, Donald Burgess, a 93 year old amputee in a wheelchair. I suppose it’s possible that baton, PAVA and taser were all required if the now dead gentleman was about to take his own life but I struggle to understand how he was a threat to the officers.


View: https://twitter.com/simonisrael/status/1555183078733225984?s=21&t=OLAjXPn0fp0PfPlYREKrAg

 

[LCpl Boiled Egg]

https://www.theguardian.com/law/202...ism-after-black-man-choked-in-stop-and-search

Not sure if this has already been posted.

 

[theclaud]

https://www.theguardian.com/law/202...ism-after-black-man-choked-in-stop-and-search

Not sure if this has already been posted.

"Met denies racism". No shoot. They're beyond reform. Time to get rid.

 

[Ian H]

They're teflon-coated. Nothing to see here - we'll sacrifice the odd wrongun to show we care, and carry on as before.

 

[mudsticks]

They're teflon-coated. Nothing to see here - we'll sacrifice the odd wrongun to show we care, and carry on as before.

I can't imagine what it's like being a person, or the victim of any of the sorts of crimes that the Met seem routinely take the p*ss out of right now, living in London..

Who would you trust.??

Who would you go to if you needed help, knowing the things they've said and done .??

It's horrific.
Completely breakdown of policing by consent.
Although it was always patchy.

I don't suppose that the Met are the only force tainted in this way.

In fact I know they're not.

There's going to be even further erosion of trust and consent countrywide if this goes on..

Then what??