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[OngBonga]

I read that story yesterday and couldn't really tell if racism was a genuine factor or if it's just "omg she's black" kneejerk outrage.

“Having considered the context of the incident, the views of those engaged in the review and the impact felt by Child Q and her family, racism (whether deliberate or not) was likely to have been an influencing factor in the decision to undertake a strip search.”

This quote here is important with regards to this discussion.
"whether deliberate or not".

The implication is that the alleged racism is systemic, and not the motivation of the individual. But if this were the case, if there was a serious problem with systemic racism in the UK police, stories like this would be happening all the time. I can't ever remember a black schoolgirl getting strip searched making the news. This is rare, as best I can tell. So rare that I doubt we could get a large enough sample size to draw any conclusions. I mean, surely white schoolgirls occasionally get strip searched too. Surely on the rare occasion, proper procedure is not followed.

Is this really racism? Or just terrible policing? I can't tell.

[Poopadoop]

Overall, the Met police seem to be shit in a lot of ways. Some protestors occupy a Russian oligarch's empty mansion in London? Better send a dozen police vans. Some regular person's house gets burgled? No time for that.

Add to that the cozy way they're playing the whole partygate thing. Regular people break lockdown rules one time? Throw the book at them. Boris and his mates do it over and over? Let's do our best to ignore it until public pressure gets too much, and then send them a questionnaire to fill out. How many people accused of a crime get to fill out a questionnaire in their own good time? Wtf kind of policing is that?

A group of women protest the murder of another woman by a cop? Get in there and start busting heads. Right-wing anti-vaxxers hold a mass protest? Ah, leave 'em alone.

And for a police force that supposedly has no problems with racism, there sure seem to be a lot of incidents where the victim of police misconduct just happens to have brown skin.


The biggest problem the cops have is the kind of person the job attracts. Authoritarians, racists, low IQ types, and people who get their orgasms from having power over others.