In the news

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58757375

The Police always respond so well to having their authority questioned.

Yeah, it doesn't usually end in the desired result but sometimes it feels like you just have to, even if you know you're fucked for it afterwards.
A bit easier when you're not the one getting nicked mind.

Depressingly we all know it'll end up with an extra charge of "resisting arrest".

And what happens when you reach for your phone and the cop assumes you're reaching for a weapon?

This feels like really poor advice from an out of touch copper who is deflecting from a systemic failure.

What a load of fucking bullshit victim blaming cuntery of the highest order.

Challenge plain-clothes officers, Met Police says

yeah. try doing that while also being guilty of not being white.

Bingo. Reeks of white privilege.

I guess it's easier to say something stupid (that they obvious know is stupid) than address the problem.

And that they have issued advice like this at all is an acknowledgement that there is a massive problem without actually saying it.

The sooner this shit stain is bankrupted into oblivion the better.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/01/us/alex-jones-loses-sandy-hook-cases/index.html

his neck IS freakishly large.

What an utter piece of shit that guy is, fuck him and his followers.

Still processing the wave down a bus bs

I can't wait for the Sarah Everard report that finds the Met to be incompetent, corrupt, and institutionally sexist.

Then, in 20 years, for fuck all to have changed.

Or speaking with an non local accent, risk a free immigration status check...

the current leader of the Met got promoted for having an innocent man murdered in broad fucking daylight, not much surprise that they continue to be an absolute shower of shit.

For some reason (lack of information probably) I pictured that as him panicking, making a break for it, and the po-po frantically firing shots at him. I didn't realise until approximately TODAY that he was literally swarmed on the tube and executed.

Only just saw this, just wow.

Or just ask to use their radio!

Sticking another 650 coppers on the street is completely tone deaf too.

Also completely misses the point that Couzens was a serving officer at the time, so a call to 999 would have just confirmed that and not changed the situation at all.

Also open to abuse as not everyone have the mean to be able to call 999, so Couzens and all the police officers are fully able to extert his power multiple ways to the public.

completely misses the point that Couzens was a serving officer at the timE

I suspect we will see a lot of this as they try to distance themselves from this.

The "jumped the barriers" story was widely spread at the time, and not debunked very publicly

Almost like the press in this country have a too-cosy relationship with the police, and don’t really give a fuck about what is and isn’t true

Exactly, it obviously worked on me because that's what I believed, I'm sure many still do

Wonder why this guy was never caught?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/01/paris-serial-killer-of-80s-and-90s-was-ex-police-officer-dna-shows

Wow just read this.

There really is a case for all dna being taken, I know it infringes civil liberties but wow. What a monster.