• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    3 hours ago

    Years ago I remember the police were trying to recruit and I turned them down on the basis of the pay with terrible. I guess that’s not my only complaint now.

    Fancy giving that as an excuse, “just following orders”, what utter crittens.

  • MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works
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    Oh please. Arresting pensioners for clapping is super easy compared with arresting violent criminals. It’s a great way to get your arrest stats up without breaking a sweat. And then you can blame the arrestees for forcing you to arrest them. It’s a win-win!

  • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    So you have decided not to enforce the law for those who commit violent crimes because your officers were too busy arresting people for clapping?

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      It’s a bold move to blame the people you arrest for being arrested, well simultaneously saying that arresting these individuals is a waste of resources. Ok then, so prioritise, is it more important to go after the violent criminals or the non-violent criminals?

      You don’t even have to have a conversation about whether or not they are in fact terrorists, you can completely absolve yourself of any responsibility and still be able to come up with a reason not to waste resources arresting people.

      There is any number of ways these officers could have got out of doing this, they wanted to.

  • Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz
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    That means 200 officers taken off the capital’s streets, where they could have been tackling the crimes that matter most to Londoners.

    Don’t waste law enforcement resources dismantling civil rights then.

  • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    Dear UK: please stop trying to mimic all the various contortions of America as it dies. It’s gauche.

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    Our government is a servant of a foreign power that is committing a genocide and doesn’t want to be inconvenienced while doing so.

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      They’re not doing it because Israel told them to, they’re doing it because the nature of a state is to look for excuses to crush dissent.

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    Politicians should sort this out. Apart from anything else it’s making the police look really stupid.

    • eestileib@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      This is on government orders.

      You think Andy Burnham is going to push back against the people who picked him for the job?