There's obviously a lot of *discourse* about policing right now, but if I may have a moment of your time, can we please talk about Chief Constable Alexis Boon's pigheaded unwillingness to accept that he has gone bald?
@StevenStoppard PCCs didn't work because it attracted people who saw it as a way into politics and who didn't know or care about policing. If the High Sheriffs had to have prior policing experience you could obviate that risk.
@StevenStoppard Let the people directly elect their high sheriff and the only campaign issue will be who says they can build the gallows fastest. Vox populi, vox dei.
@AyoCaesar There is obviously no "pervasive culture of trying to secure an arrest at all costs" except where there are allegations of domestic abuse or racism. Would you have it some other way?
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@PC_Angry@AbiderThe28076 Did you learn zingers from Bart Simpson? You haven't understood what I've said. I've literally said my opinion of you isn't the issue. I don't think this can be explained in shorter words. Do you need a diagram in crayon?
@PC_Angry@AbiderThe28076 Do you need it explained in shorter words? My opinion that you're a stupid dickhead is irrelevant. It's that you make all police look like stupid dickheads.
@PC_Angry@AbiderThe28076 You're even stupider than I'd thought. The problem is that you combine being ostentatiously a police officer and a performative cunt, which is a problem for people who are only the former. Whether I read your tweets is irrelevant; it's everyone else.
@PC_Angry@AbiderThe28076 Please stop tweeting. You're not as funny or clever as you think you are. You come across as such a cunt, it reflects badly on the rest of us.
As Britain wakes up to the dangers of progressive race theory, I'm reminded of my report that Essex Police described white people as a "non-protected group."
Sadly it had little impact at the time. It's such a shame that it often takes a tragedy to force reassessment.
@DPJHodges Whenever you use the word "likely" this tweet flashes in front of my eyes, like a version of A Clockwork Orange where Alex is being forced to learn that comment journalists are committed bullshit artists.
It's curious how one side of the debate, the side which is generally very sceptical of the police, is so willing to let the police mark their own homework here.
"I do not accept that at all."
Parm Sandhu, director of the London Policing College and former chief superintendent at the Met Police, rejects accusations of a 'two-tier' justice system, and says the police officers involved in the Henry Nowak case made a 'tragic mistake'.