But as the late John Smith might have observed, this is a bit rich coming from the same Fourth Estate that has had no problem working hand in glove with bent coppers, and for decades past. Corruption in the Met and other Police forces was fine as long as the press benefited from a host of informants, and all that not always legally obtained information they provided.
Louise Casey’s report, as the Guardian has told, says the Met “is broken and rotten, suffering collapsing public trust and is guilty of institutional racism, misogyny and homophobia … The report … one of the most damning of a major British institution … details disturbing stories of sexual assaults, usually covered up or downplayed, with 12% of women in the Met saying they had been harassed or attacked at work, and one-third experiencing sexism”.
The report “warned that ‘public consent is broken’ with just 50% of the public expressing confidence, even before revelations about the force’s worst recent scandals. She pinned the primary blame on its past leadership and said: ‘Public respect has fallen to a low point. Londoners who do not have confidence in the Met outnumber those who do, and these measures have been lower amongst black Londoners for years’”. Shocked? Not shocked.
But the press claims to be. The Mail is especially righteous, howling “BROKEN AND ROTTEN … Devastating review says Met is ‘institutionally racist, corrupt, misogynistic and homophobic’ … May be many more Police like killer Couzens … Force must reform or be ‘overhauled’”.
That’s the same Daily Mail, together with the Mail on Sunday, which featured so prominently in the information gathering work, much of it illegal, undertaken by the likes of Steve Whittamore - often depending on bent coppers to improperly access the Police National Computer.
That’s the same Screws that was intimately involved with the Daniel Morgan murder case, still unsolved and at every turn hampered by Police corruption. The same Screws that was a by-word for phone hacking, about which we would have known more, and known it sooner, had it not been for cops like Yates of the Yard getting in the way. The Screws and the cops moved as one.
As they did in service of Mazher Mahmood’s various sales-generating setups and stings: all those the Fake Sheikh set up for drugs busts, and also the fake stories, like the Beckham kidnap that was never going to happen, and the Dirty Bomb Plot that wasn’t. The press wasn’t so righteous about the Met then. Now that same press is chucking the Met under the bus.
Worse, there is no mention of one recent event where the Met’s inertia has been to the benefit of the right-leaning part of the press - its unwillingness to investigate apparently illegal activity by the two Leave campaigns. As with phone hacking, the Met sat on the evidence, to the benefit of both campaigns, and with the press not saying boo. Corruption wasn’t so bad then, was it?
Our free and fearless press has known full well that the Met was “Broken and Rotten” years ago. And what did they do about it? Nothing. Nix. Nil. Nada. Zip. Zero. Zilch. Not a sausage. Bugger all. Because bent coppers were good for business. Illegal information gathering, joining in with manufacturing fake stories, obstructing investigations, covering up - that was OK.
Anyone might think the press were massive hypocrites. And they’d be right.
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I seem to recall, in 1999, the Macpherson report branded the Met “institutionally racist” so I guess it’s evolved to be institutionally homophobic and misogynistic as well now. Progress huh?
But hang on just one second, it was only last year that the Government reported, via the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities that the UK should be regarded as a “model for other white-majority countries” in how it dealt with racism. Britain, said the right wing press, was definitely not racist. Guess nobody told the Metropolitan Police eh?
So, with the above in mind, do we think this latest report will have any impact whatsoever on the behaviour of the Police? Or will we be reading another report in 25 years time calling them out for being institutionally racist, homophobic, misogynistic and generally anthropophobic?
Where's the beef?
Met hoodlums are simply following the behaviour of their political, financial and media masters in the most corrupt city in the world:
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/when-a-mafia-expert-tells-us-britain-is-the-most-corrupt-country-in-the-world-it-s-time-to-start-listening-a7057686.html
Where even it's new high rise architectural slums of the imagination are bent.
Corrupt coppers want their share of the corrupt cake.
That's what you get when you allow your country's capital to become a criminal deluded soap opera performing in a money launderette owned and run by thieving mass murderers.
You reap what you sow.
I put it down to the corrupting effect of the fumes given off by traffic on the M25.
That and too much pie'n'mash and jellied eels.
And that Dennis Waterman.
@Bertie: and them Mitchell bruvvers.
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