• See https://www.private-eye.co.uk/paul-foot-award for why the tweet is a well constructed mutation of the "some of my best friends are black" meme.

  • I don’t know about the UK, but the US police are at least 4x* as likely to be domestic abusers as the population at large.
    I don’t see the above joke punching-down to domestic abuse victims, but as a joke pointing out that there is a domestic abuse problem among police.

    *this is reported, the #s may be higher due to fear of reporting domestic abuse to a spouse’s coworkers and/or friends. There is also the chance that reported domestic abuse among police gets officially logged much less then among the general population.

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