Thought Slimes

The British police need to get their priorities straight:

The police’s combination of arrogance and incompetence is reflected in crime statistics. Of the more than 33,000 car thefts recorded in London last year, just over 300 of those resulted in anyone being charged. Shoplifters, too, can basically steal with impunity. In 2023, of the more than 40,000 incidents reported, only five per cent ended in charges or summons. It also can’t have escaped most people’s notice that while the police claim to lack the resources to deal with violent crimes and theft, they have no problem summoning up the manpower when it comes to fighting thoughtcrime. Here the examples are depressingly endless. In March, six officers descended on a peaceful family home in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, where they arrested an innocent couple for the ‘crime’ of criticising their daughters’ school on WhatsApp. Later that month, 20 Met officers forced their way into a Quaker Meeting House in Westminster, where they arrested six young women for planning a climate protest. We recently learnt that Julian Foulkes, a retired police officer from Gillingham, Kent, was thrown in a police cell for eight hours for a tweet. As six officers raided his house, one of them expressed concern at the ‘very Brexity things’ on his bookshelf, including a book by conservative author Douglas Murray, a copy of the Spectator and a book on the history of the Common Market. And then there are the armies of police officers who spend their days trawling through social-media accounts in the hope of locating a non-crime hate incident. This is the practice whereby officers record speech or incidents that, while not criminal, are perceived as hateful. The Free Speech Union estimates that up to 65 of these are secretly recorded every day, against people who have not committed any crime or harmed anybody. It’s no surprise, then, that the police’s demands have been met with bewilderment and indifference from the long-suffering public. The left has long been suspicious of a police force it considers to be ‘institutionally racist’. And now, the police’s vigorous enforcement of wokery and their dispensation of two-tier justice mean they are now hated by the right, too. Across the political spectrum, support for the police is in short supply.

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