Has The First Step In The Defunding of Britain’s Biggest Police Force Taken Place?
Read for yourselves and decide…
Policing as we know it in the United Kingdom is dead.
For those of us on the sidelines, who have watched a number of attempts to reform that which cannot be reformed, the events of the last week has not come as a surprise in the slightest; it was expected.
It was announced a few days ago that the metropolitan police had been put into special measures.
For all non-British readers, what this means is that the running of the biggest police force in the United Kingdom has been put into the hands of an independent body.
An American equivalent would be the NYPD being taken off the hands of the mayor to be run by a special task force appointed by the federal government.
This decision was made off the back of the revelation that 69,000 crimes had gone unreported last year and the fall out from the rape and murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer.
But anyone with a fair knowledge of the history of policing in England knows that the rot goes far back than we care to admit. The Macpherson enquiry in 1999, into the Lawrence murder did show significant police failings and corruption.