Hundreds of London police officers are facing dismissal as the department steps up efforts "to root out those who are corrupt" after a series of scandals eroded public trust and a scathing report found it was institutionally racist, homophobic and misogynistic.
They don’t actually give a shit, it’s 100% lip service, which they are only paying now because one of their own committed such a heinous crime they have no choice but to “investigate themsleves” to appease people such as yourself and stop the justified calls for abolition (but as this article mentions, any actual action is many years away, by which point no one will actually notice any systemic change because there will be none)
Is there actually an abolish the police movement in the UK? I’m an ex-Brit who lives in the US so I’m familiar with both, and the UK police forces have an entirely different history and reputation to the US LE organizations. I’d be surprised if there’s anything outside of anarchist groups there. But I’m happy to shown I’m wrong (well, “happy” is a relative term, if the UK police have devolved to the same troughs as the US LE orgs then that’s terrible news.)
They don’t actually give a shit, it’s 100% lip service, which they are only paying now because one of their own committed such a heinous crime they have no choice but to “investigate themsleves” to appease people such as yourself and stop the justified calls for abolition (but as this article mentions, any actual action is many years away, by which point no one will actually notice any systemic change because there will be none)
Is there actually an abolish the police movement in the UK? I’m an ex-Brit who lives in the US so I’m familiar with both, and the UK police forces have an entirely different history and reputation to the US LE organizations. I’d be surprised if there’s anything outside of anarchist groups there. But I’m happy to shown I’m wrong (well, “happy” is a relative term, if the UK police have devolved to the same troughs as the US LE orgs then that’s terrible news.)
No, it wouldn’t make much sense. The government has beendefunding the police for a decade anyway.
Ah yes. The ol “We’ll police ourselves so you don’t have to.” Shtick. Aka business as fucking usual. Why the fuck am I not surprised?