The UK Police Misconduct Thread

[ursus arctos]

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

[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]

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.

[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

[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.

[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?

[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).

[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]

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 I guess is the establishment figure and that’s the most important thing

Meanwhile in Scotland

https://twitter.com/clancynewyork/status/1404867667358584840?s=21

[ursus arctos]

As you know better than most, it has been been a shit 16 years for Jean Charles de Menezes.

Dick's ability to survive massive scandals dating back at least that long is gob-smacking.

[Nefertiti2]

Specially for TonTon

channel 4 throw Epstein into the Met accusation mix

https://twitter.com/bendepear/status/1404860158753361922?s=21

Following the Daniel Morgan case spy cops Sarah Everard murder it’s not been a good week for Cressida Dick

[Guy Profumo]

It's not that some men who are / were policemen committed domestic abuse, in and of itself bad enough

But that the Police don't investigate and act and collude to protect their own from serious allegations of abuse and assault


https://www.channel4.com/news/more-t...s-club-culture

[DCI Harry Batt]

Why are the recent posts on the "misconduct" thread?

The original kidnappers were immigration cops and their colleagues arrived, tooled-up and mob-handed, to defend them.

[Nefertiti2]

Why are the recent posts on the "misconduct" thread?

this might help answer that question. looks like it was touch and go

https://twitter.com/KAMackinnon/status/1392915141612736524?s=20

[Nefertiti2]

i think we can all write the piece ourselves.

it will contain the word "mob"

https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1392911298678120450?s=21

[Guy Profumo]

Why are the recent posts on the "misconduct" thread?

[Nefertiti2]

tthe compassion of the oppressed for the
oppressed is indispensable.
It is the world’s one hope.

[Sean of the Shed]

BBC news just reported that Nicola Sturgeon said she was "deeply concerned" by the incident, but for some reason that only they can explain, failed to qualify that what she was actually deeply concerned about was the actions of the UK Home Office.

[Nefertiti2]

excellent work by some elected representatives

https://twitter.com/clancynewyork/status/1392893027295899651?s=20

[Etienne]

Yeah, brings a tear to the eye.

[Nefertiti2]

Agreed -this is amazing

https://twitter.com/ShellyAsquith/status/1392887873117032451?s=20

[DCI Harry Batt]

Let's just enjoy the beautiful win for a bit.

[Sean of the Shed]

And plenty of dog whistles with regard to ethnicity and religion.

[Nefertiti2]

Be interesting to see how our wonderful diverse British media report this.

i think we can all write the piece ourselves.

it will contain the word "mob"