Wandering Off Topic

[jassi]

You do have to wonder what the sun is playing at .

Wonder no longer - the reporter is  Tracey, McCann friend and confident   

[barrier]

Not before time, who's next in line for the poisoned chalice.

Cressida Dick FINALLY quits: Scandal-hit Met Commissioner resigns 'with huge sadness' as Sadiq Khan shows her the door for failing to root out 'racism, sexism and homophobia' in the force... just hours after she said she had no intention of leaving

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

[G-Unit]

Not before time, who's next in line for the poisoned chalice.

Cressida Dick FINALLY quits: Scandal-hit Met Commissioner resigns 'with huge sadness' as Sadiq Khan shows her the door for failing to root out 'racism, sexism and homophobia' in the force... just hours after she said she had no intention of leaving

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

How long now have they been trying to clean up The Met? It's culture seems able to survive no matter what they try.

[The General]

How long now have they been trying to clean up The Met? It's culture seems able to survive no matter what they try.

Well, the fish rots from the head, only in this case there's a lot of heads in that organisation, not just Dick.
Misogyny, racism, Nepotism and homophobia are running amok almost unchecked across all sections of society. I Racism, homophobia, etc are not simply the result of private prejudices held by individuals, but are also produced and reproduced by laws, rules, and practices, sanctioned and even implemented by various levels of government, and embedded in the economic system as well as in cultural and societal norms.

They're going nowhere and Cressida Dick was on a hiding to nothing the moment Khan issued his challenge, as will be her successor.

[G-Unit]

Well, the fish rots from the head, only in this case there's a lot of heads in that organisation, not just Dick.
Misogyny, racism, Nepotism and homophobia are running amok almost unchecked across all sections of society. I Racism, homophobia, etc are not simply the result of private prejudices held by individuals, but are also produced and reproduced by laws, rules, and practices, sanctioned and even implemented by various levels of government, and embedded in the economic system as well as in cultural and societal norms.

They're going nowhere and Cressida Dick was on a hiding to nothing the moment Khan issued his challenge, as will be her successor.

You're right, of course, but in this specific case I was thinking it might make sense to break The Met up into smaller units with their own Chief Constables. It would perhaps allow more control to be exercised.

[The General]

You're right, of course, but in this specific case I was thinking it might make sense to break The Met up into smaller units with their own Chief Constables. It would perhaps allow more control to be exercised.

In the next 10 years it will be privatised, so we might as well wait for that to happen.

[G-Unit]

In the next 10 years it will be privatised, so we might as well wait for that to happen.

You think? Privatised prisons didn't work too well.

[The General]

You think? Privatised prisons didn't work too well.

Yes, an Orwellian, dystopian, Jackbooted, paramilitary 'police'. We're part way there already, with blanket surveillance and Thought Police.
Then throw in a smattering of Fahrenheit 451.

[jassi]

You're right, of course, but in this specific case I was thinking it might make sense to break The Met up into smaller units with their own Chief Constables. It would perhaps allow more control to be exercised.

I would agree with that. It should concentrate on general policing within the Metropolitan district and leave other areas such as counter terrorism diplomatic protection, etc to other organisations like MI5 and NCA.
By trying to be all-encompassing it fails across the board.

[G-Unit]

I would agree with that. It should concentrate on general policing within the Metropolitan district and leave other areas such as counter terrorism diplomatic protection, etc to other organisations like MI5 and NCA.
By trying to be all-encompassing it fails across the board.

There's the opinion of ordinary officers who are just trying to do their jobs too;
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/02/police-officer-london-lost-control-streets-knife-crime-cuts

It sounds like just getting through their days is difficult enough, without being denigrated for their culture also.

[jassi]

Dick always seemed weighed down by her epaulets - far too big for her little frame.
A question I asked myself now and again was did she wear them on her pajamas as well ?
One needs to know these things

[G-Unit]

Dick always seemed weighed down by her epaulets - far too big for her little frame.
A question I asked myself now and again was did she wear them on her pajamas as well ?
One needs to know these things

Rank is a strange thing. I remember a certain Army Major whose CSM always inspected him before he inspected the Company. The reason was that the Major wasn't always properly dressed himself, which led to tittering in the ranks. Wearing one's jumper back to front or one's lanyard on the wrong shoulder isn't setting a good example.

[barrier]

How long now have they been trying to clean up The Met? It's culture seems able to survive no matter what they try.

Not fit for purpose really is it, with the litany of failures behind it , also Grange can't be described to be a roaring success , its under the same banner.

[jassi]

Not fit for purpose really is it, with the litany of failures behind it , also Grange can't be described to be a roaring success , its under the same banner.

I think Grange is a good example of one of the met's faults - political interference and agendas.

They would never have got involved without interference from Cameron.

[The General]

I think Grange is a good example of one of the met's faults - political interference and agendas.

They would never have got involved without interference from Cameron.

Their abject failure to tackle inner city knife crime (and nearly half a million violent offences last year alone) is an indelible stain on them all.