Rory Geoghegan

I'm now at @SafetyScoreUK | Founder @PublicSafetyFdn | Background: Police officer, No10 Policy Unit, Home Office, thinktanker & techie

[Rory Geoghegan @rorygeo]

"One of the things I do fear..."

President @realDonaldTrump confronted EDI/DEI in the 🇺🇸USA and the British police chief in charge of the Race Action Plan said she 'feared' for the 🇬🇧UK.

All while presenting a slide of @Nigel_Farage and @SuellaBraverman.

[Department of State @StateDept]

Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational decline. They must be rejected across the West.

The United States sends our condolences to the family of Henry Nowak and the people of the United Kingdom at this troubling time.

[Rory Geoghegan @rorygeo]

@StateDept Thank you. Your post will likely have put some British police chiefs in even greater "fear" 👇https://t.co/DsRmSBR7Em

[Rory Geoghegan @rorygeo]

"One of the things I do fear..."

President @realDonaldTrump confronted EDI/DEI in the 🇺🇸USA and the British police chief in charge of the Race Action Plan said she 'feared' for the 🇬🇧UK.

All while presenting a slide of @Nigel_Farage and @SuellaBraverman.

[Rory Geoghegan @rorygeo]

In September 2023 the Home Secretary commissioned @HMICFRS to investigate political activism and impartiality within policing.

They completely fudged it.

They weren't prepared to identify or surface the most obvious issues with "anti-racism" - so why will now be any different?

[Rory Geoghegan @rorygeo]

This comment on my most recent @Telegraph piece captures the mood of many in our nation - and the challenge that faces us 👇

[Rory Geoghegan @rorygeo]

The IOPC may investigate the actions of individual officers.

But Henry Nowak's death raises much bigger questions than the conduct of any one person.

How did a mortally wounded man repeatedly telling officers "I've been stabbed" end up handcuffed and under arrest as he died?

What training, culture, priorities and leadership decisions lay behind that moment?

Only a full public inquiry can explore such questions.

If Henry hadn't been white, such an inquiry might have been announced already.

My latest for The Telegraph 👇

https://t.co/9UWK6OpACy

[Rory Geoghegan @rorygeo]

“As regular, law-abiding citizens, we just assume the law’s going to do the right thing, and the CPS is there to serve the innocent and the victims. But by God, they have just been appalling. They’re so fractured and so broken. We’ve realised that we’re the very last consideration.” — @MrsEmmaWebber

https://t.co/g3b1D3P0En

[Ed West @edwest]

Today's post: the case for inquiry into anti-racism grows stronger with each state failure

[Rory Geoghegan @rorygeo]

If @Sussex_Police's Senior Officer Book Club ever finishes studying and dismantling their internal white supremacy, I'm happy to recommend something more appropriate.

[Suella Braverman @SuellaBraverman]

The rot runs deep.

Sussex Police launched a ‘Senior Officer Book Club’ to reflect on ‘privilege and biases’, focused on the book ‘Me and White Supremacy’ by Layla F Saad.

This book is a ‘28 day truth telling journey to guide those with white privilege to discover, examine and unpack their inner white supremacy’.

All supported and signed off by the Conservative Police and Crime Commissioner in December 2024, when Kemi was leader of the Party!

https://t.co/o7DAhVNKVI

[Rory Geoghegan @rorygeo]

There's a 126-page report commissioned, published and "welcomed in full" by the Metropolitan Police that would allow some to claim this young free-thinking black woman is perpetrating "anti-Black harm" through her "whiteness".

I wish I was joking!

https://t.co/3dFsibYzsA

[Southampton Times @sotontimes]

“This is genuinely more evil than what happened to George Floyd….its evidence of two tier policing”

One of the best interviews from the Henry Nowak protest in Southampton by @billymooreAPBD

[Rory Geoghegan @rorygeo]

@sotontimes @billymooreAPBD There's a 126-page report commissioned, published and "welcomed in full" by the Metropolitan Police that would see this young black woman as perpetrating "anti-Black harm" through her "whiteness".

I wish I was joking.

https://t.co/3dFsibYzsA

[Rory Geoghegan @rorygeo]

I visited HMP Isis in c.2021 and the walls inside the prison were stencilled with BLACK LIVES MATTER.

[Ian Acheson 🇬🇧☘️ @NotThatBigIan]

Meanwhile over at the most ideologically captured ministry in Gov't, you'll see precisely zero reflection on whether there's an over correction in 'anti-racism' policy. Here's the former DG of HM Prison Service taking the knee outside HMP Durham, awash with chaos, in 2020. 1/

[Rory Geoghegan @rorygeo]

@MayorofLondon Source: https://t.co/CN0fVS7trL

[Rory Geoghegan @rorygeo]

🚨 A FEW FACTS ABOUT KNIFE CRIME...

Figures obtained by @PublicSafetyFdn show that the Mayor of London's own analysts examined serious violence among under 25s in London and found:

➡️ 9 of London's 10 most prolific robbers: black.

➡️ 41% of robbery suspects: black.

➡️ repeat robbers: suspects in 60% of robberies.

Why does any of this matter for knife crime?

1⃣ The Mayor's analysts said "robbery offences drive trends of youth violence and overall knife crime" - so tackling robbery is essential to tackling knife crime.

2⃣ When you next hear "stop and search is racist", know that the speaker is revealing their ideological position, not a serious understanding of policing or how to cut knife crime.

3⃣ When you're next told that "we imprison too many people" remember that 60% of robberies in our capital are being committed by repeat offenders who ought to be in prison, not free to commit more crime.

👉 Finally, beyond the obvious fact of taking weapons and those carrying them off the streets, Sherman and Piquero (2025) estimated that returning stop and search to 2008-2011 levels could lead to approximately 30 fewer knife murders per year in London.

Source: Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (2022)

[Rory Geoghegan @rorygeo]

The last data I saw from the @MayorofLondon's own crime analysts showed that among under 25s, 9 of London's 10 most prolific robbers were black.

The analysts weren't racist for noticing.

Nor are officers for using S&S to catch them.

[Times Radio @TimesRadio]

"There is still a discrimination in terms of stop and search, you are still three or four times more likely to be stopped if you are black compared to if you are white."

Following the death of Henry Nowak in police handcuffs policing minister Sarah Jones says that police guidance is clumsy and 'is being reviewed'.

[Rory Geoghegan @rorygeo]

Why wasn't this the official response from British police chiefs to the death of George Floyd in the USA and the subsequent BLM protests and political activism in the UK?

[Suella Braverman @SuellaBraverman]

Several serving and former Hampshire Police Officers have told me that ‘we had it drummed into us about our white privilege and unconscious bias’.

Training was outsourced to a third party company and the trainer ‘was deeply hateful of white people and our culture.’

Officers have reported to me about being furious but unable to complain out of fear for their jobs.

This is exactly why I blocked the Race Action Plan as Home Secretary.

It is disgraceful that this stuff went on in policing. And the PCC and CC need to be held to account.

[Ian Acheson 🇬🇧☘️ @NotThatBigIan]

A very good point. It's going to be very hard to find a clean pair of hands to deliver justice and due process for Henry's family, the wider police family or the officers directly involved.

[Gareth Roberts @OldRoberts953]

Key point.

[Rory Geoghegan @rorygeo]

A reminder that Baroness Casey's Review of the Metropolitan Police had a section titled "Evidence of racism in the Met" and gave an example of police saying "all lives matter".

[Rory Geoghegan @rorygeo]

I'm not sure how the IOPC can possibly independently review guidance and racial equity commitments that they have themselves called for and welcomed.

[Gavin Hales @gmhales]

Described as "part of the IOPC investigation to get all the facts" in relation to the Henry Nowak case.

[Rory Geoghegan @rorygeo]

Following my complaint and subsequent appeal, the BBC have revised the caption on this story.
RIP PC Andrew Harper💙

[Rory Geoghegan @rorygeo]

Poor reporting from @BBC describing PC Andrew Harper as having "died while on duty".

He was killed in the line of duty and his killers were convicted of his manslaughter.

I've lodged a complaint. You can too:
https://t.co/jBIo0IxZu9

[Rory Geoghegan @rorygeo]

@gmhales I wonder if they'll bother to speak to anyone beyond the groups they spoke to when they cooked it up?
https://t.co/px5ZAYq8vG

[Rory Geoghegan @rorygeo]

List of who @PoliceChiefs and @CollegeofPolice consulted about their "anti-racist commitment". Proof that policing has serious problems with impartiality, political activism and ideological capture.👇