A chief constable has said her acknowledgment that her police force was “institutionally racist” unsettled and hurt some officers but insisted it has allowed the force to make vital changes.
Such as..?
A series of changes have been made, including changes to the force’s stop and search policy, the introduction of alternative ways of dealing with young people accused of crime, and the running of cultural awareness training programmes for officers.
So her patch is now a crime-free paradise, is it?
There have been a series of fatal stabbings in and around Bristol in the past 12 months.
Oh! Guess not.
Crew said she believed her openness had made them easier to investigate.
Have they all been solved then?
“Without the acknowledgment and the work we’ve done, I think we’d been in a very difficult, very different place.
“Had I not acknowledged that institutional racism exists, I’m sure the communities most directly affected would not trust us. Without trust there is no consent, and without consent we no longer have legitimacy to police.”
Doesn't sound like it, or she wouldn't be waffling about 'community engagement'. You know, the same 'community' that is forever stabbing each other and then whining about the police attempts to stop them doing it.
Crew has won plaudits for her force’s attempts to put rape suspects’ credibility and not their victims’ at the centre of sexual offences investigations, and she said the plan was to take lessons learned from that to try to improve how it served victims from Black and ethnic minority communities.
“Do we need to have a particularly enhanced kind of response if you’re a minoritised victim of crime? That could be quite controversial, so we are getting some legal and ethical feedback.”
Yes, two-tier policing will be 'quite controversial', I guess you could say!
To repeat myself, there are too many women in too many positions of authority. And the cause of this is weak men in positions of authority.
ReplyDeleteA degree in Classics is an obvious qualification for a senior Police officer, almost as good as a Sociology degree. At least she'll have learned of the countless times in history where people were promoted at least two places above their ability, as well as those who remained power by knowing the right phrases to say to the right people.
ReplyDeleteAt least, she's done something with her hair since her appointment photograph (was that a wig?)
I wonder if she was fast tracked, or spent her first 2 years as a probationer, pounding the streets, and learning her trade, like the majority of recruits.
The people of Bristol really are in safe hands, not.
Penseivat
And elsewhere in Avon & Somerset's territory, PCSO's turn out belatedly for an assault, rural drug dealing is ignored and Dribble is NFI about uninsured/untaxed cars. However, break the 70 limit on the A303 and you will pay...
ReplyDeleteI live in a village of about 1000 people and have seen three police vehicles in two years - one drove in one night (lost?), 3 point turn and drove off, another was when a terminal cancer patient died at home and the third was when a relatively fit eighty-something died of an unexpected heart attack.