The UK Police Misconduct Thread

[ursus arctos]

Dick's persistence does make me wonder if she (or more likely the Met) have been running a J. Edgar Hoover-like operation that has collected dirt on each and every individual capable of calling him (or them) to account.

Hoover has been dead for decades, but the US is still dealing with the fallout of his crimes.

[Nefertiti2]

Dick's persistence does make me wonder if she (or more likely the Met) have been running a J. Edgar Hoover-like operation that has collected dirt on each and every individual capable of calling him (or them) to account.

They had Murdoch to do that for them, and the Mudoch Coulson Hayman network

Hayman was in charge of the initial inquiry into phone hacking by the News of the World. In April 2010 The Guardian reported that he "subsequently left the police to work for News International as a columnist." He has contributed to The Times, owned by NI, and there has "written in defence of the police investigation and maintained there were 'perhaps a handful' of hacking victims."^[

Hayman appeared before the Home Affairs Select Committee on 12 July 2011 when he confirmed that he had received hospitality from people he was investigating in relation to a criminal offence, although he regarded this as normal and operational matters were not discussed.^[17] During this hearing, Select Committee member Lorraine Fullbrook said that the public saw him as a "dodgy geezer" for the financial and sexual allegations surrounding his resignation from the police, for his "cosying up to the executives of News International" and for "the disaster" of his enquiry into the phone hacking scandal.

They also ran many of the lies about Menezes

[ursus arctos]

I think there are parallel operations here.

The Met is illegally feeding the red tops confidential information for personal gain and political advantage, but at the same time is running its own operation to make sure it can destroy any meaningful opponents (with the help of those same red tops, of course).

[DCI Harry Batt]

Will anything come of the Morgan report? Putting aside Dick's position (which obviously anywhere vaguely reasonable would be untenable), there are some specific recommendations - will they be ignored?

[Nefertiti2]

I think there are parallel operations here.

The Met is illegally feeding the red tops confidential information for personal gain and political advantage, but at the same time is running its own operation to make sure it can destroy any meaningful opponents (with the help of those same red tops, of course).

what the Morgan report revealed is that there was often very little separation between the press- wouldn't separate the Times or Telegraph or Mail from the Sun or Mirror, the police, and those getting their information- and the professional criminals.

[Nefertiti2]

Will anything come of the Morgan report? Putting aside Dick's position (,which obviously anywhere vaguely reasonable would be untenable), there are some specific recommendations - will they be ignored?

I imagine so

[ursus arctos]

Yes, but each of those organisations will want to be sure to have a certain quantum of protection against betrayal by any of the others.

[Guy Profumo]

Why were they all stood around the other day when Nick Watt of the BBC was being threatened and abused?

Dare I say for the same reason they took to the streets to protect the BUF in 1936?.

[ursus arctos]

[https://twitter.com/adavies4/status/1405094005499641859?

[Nefertiti2]

https://twitter.com/wordmercenary/status/1405117571641364481?s=21

[Eggchaser]

Will anything come of the Morgan report? Putting aside Dick's position (which obviously anywhere vaguely reasonable would be untenable), there are some specific recommendations - will they be ignored?

Lessons will be learned.

[Guy Profumo]

Lessons will be learned.

Like "don't get caught"

[Nefertiti2]

A couple of interesting things

https://twitter.com/WordMercenary/status/1405117571641364481?s=20

https://twitter.com/BBCDomC/status/1407334510971310089?s=20

[Nefertiti2]

this thread is really astonishing

basically there was an axe wielding ex-copper known to the police who somoehow never was in the frame for the axe murder of Daniel Morgan...

https://twitter.com/yorksranter/status/1407616902978052100?s=20

[DCI Harry Batt]

As well as the filthy bastard Benjamin Monk becoming the first cop in over 30 years to be convicted for killing while on the job (see Dalian Atkinson thread in Football), I just spotted this, from Scotland:

Police Federation chief loses court action over ‘offensive’ Sheku Bayoh tweet

The Federation is disgusting. Which shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, of course. This piece of shit laughing at the death his gang caused wanted the court to rule that his human rights were being unfairly infringed by there being a disciplinary investigation into him for it.

[Antepli Ejderha]

https://twitter.com/davidallengreen/status/1408319293364785154?s=19

[Antepli Ejderha]

[Antepli Ejderha]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...illiams-search

Gross misconduct charges await but I'm sure they'll get away with it or just a slap on the wrists.

[Nefertiti2]

Why is Cressida Dick untouchable?

perhaps the answer is here

https://twitter.com/declassifieduk/status/1413048962085539846?s=21

[DCI Harry Batt]

And now the piece of shit, who ordered the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, and is boss of the officially institutionally corrupt Met, and boss of the murdering rapist who killed Sarah Everard, is being given a gong of some kind for her "public service". Lovely.

[Guy Profumo]

And now the piece of shit, who ordered the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, and is boss of the officially institutionally corrupt Met, and boss of the murdering rapist who killed Sarah Everard, is being given a gong of some kind for her "public service". Lovely.

and has granted "lifetime anonymity" to the rapists of female activists, if I remember correctly?

[Guy Profumo]

Manchester Police claim racist graffiti and vandalism "not of a racist nature"

It's almost like they can't help themselves, isn't it?


https://www.theguardian.com/football...hester-artwork

[Nefertiti2]

Murder is a disciplinary offence

https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1416102225802407942?s=21

[Guy Profumo]

Fancy that then: violent and corrupt before they even enter the Met
Cressida Dick defends bent pig bastards in training and responsible for recruitment r at Hendon

[Guy Profumo]

And another thing, in that article the criticism of "letting in ticketless" fans was as operational thing, and it's also quite possible command failed to forsee the scale of the problem
A different issue, which should be straightforward to address

Purging the racist cunt bastard filth that form their ranks LP on the other hand…