Isn’t it Time the Woke Boys in Blue Started Policing Our Streets, Not Our Tweets?
I’ve written a piece for Mail+ today about the new rainbow-coloured patrol cars the British police have introduced in an effort to tackle hate crime. As you can imagine, I’m not particularly enthusiastic about this initiative. Here is an extract:
The decision by UK police to replace patrol vehicles with ‘hate crime cars’ – which are decorated with rainbow colours and emblazoned with the word ‘Pride’ – is like something out of a W1-style satire about ‘woke’ British policing.
Are the police really devoting resources to spray-painting their vehicles with rainbows when only 7% of violent crimes end up being prosecuted? And it isn’t just stabbings that go unpunished. I was burgled last week and the thieves made off with my teenage daughter’s laptop, containing all her A-level photography work.
The police didn’t turn up until the following day – mercifully not in a unicorn car – at which point they told us nothing could be done. However, we did get a nice email from them containing our ‘crime reference number’ and an assurance that “the Metropolitan Police stands against any form of discrimination”.
Does that include discriminating against criminals by arresting them?
Worth reading in full.
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Put a Union Flag on a car instead…
If the police don’t want to do that they should arrest themselves for a hate crime.
The only real Hate-Crime in this country is Oikophobia (Roger Scruton’s term for hate of fellow countrymen).
It looks like they’re the entertainment turning up at a children’s party. What a joke, just not a funny one.
I wrote before I read your post, its very true pleased I am not the only one to think so
Looks like the guy who “designed” all the buses got a new line of work.
Promoting gayness on police cars is a hate crime against Christians
Not just Christians.
Ridiculous as this idea is, I see no logic whatsoever in your comment
Well did you ever see that episode of Max and Paddy’s Road to Nowhere when they tried to sell that pig to a Muslim takeaway and ended up being chased down the street? It’s a bit like that. Now imagine the police turning up at a Muslim’s house in a car with bacon rashers painted on it. With Christians, some of them are strongly opposed to the politics and beliefs implied by this particular “rainbow” design (and Muslims too – I suspect you won’t find too many “rainbow” flags in Afghanistan). Whilst the police are supposed to be working impartially for the whole community, this appears to be siding with one particular community – and by implication siding against other communities with different beliefs, including groups that already face discrimination.
And Muslims. They can turn up in them cars at that school in Birmingham…
And as I say, I saw a similar police car years ago.
I imagine these were wrapped rather than spray painted. Not that our institutions shy away from pissing money away on vanity projects, but that sort of artwork painted would end up costing multiple times the cost of the vehicle in the first place.
Futile endeavour from an ever more distant, ineffectual, conceited ‘force’. My respect for them has long been replaced with contempt.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bNhTm37vPeI
Former officer reacts in anger at police cars being repainted in support of the LGBT+ community
The message those rainbow-coloured police cars send to me is that they’re only concerned with a tiny minority of the population, around 2%, if that. The rest of us can go hang. They don’t care. They see us as bigots and criminals picking on vulnerable LGBT victims. They’re not interested in burglary, assault, muggings, etc. That might take actual policing, and worse still, it might put them up against violent criminals, instead of an average member of the public. Much easier to pick on the latter.
I think of that town in the so-called United States where they get to vote on the wages of the local police – and the police jolly well make sure they vote for good wages each year by concentrating on the things that matter to them. Some good ideas over there.
Yep- I know of areas in Sheffield, (actually saw it whilst working so not hearsay), where the old folk are basically terrified prisoners in their flats at night whilst drug addicts, dealers and God knows who else congregate on the stairwells and landings, light fires outside, smash the odd car window and there’s never a police car in sight- they simply aren’t interested. A few of the old folk told me that there’s no point ringing the police because they never turn up and sometimes actually get stroppy with them for ringing if they don’t have proof of an actual crime! Much easier to hand out parking or speeding fines, arrest people for online hate crime, etc.- much safer for the poor souls. The old folk must wonder why they bothered surviving the odd war and depression, working like dogs to provide for their families, etc. Absolute disgrace- they should hang their heads in shame .
Policing ‘Without fear or favour’?
Fat chance.
It isn’t the promotion of homosexual rights, it’s the eradication of Judeo-Christian values.
Ridiculous as this idea is, what values is it eradicating?
How about decent family values, morals, respect for others as opposed to ramming your ‘beliefs’ down their throats, general decent behaviour?
I like this one: that’ll scare the crooks?
Toby – an excellent article. All right-minded people will agree one hundred percent with everything you say.
First, policing was the prevention and detection of crime (the founding philosophy), then came policing by objectives (the influence of corporate management thinking), then overtaken with policing by consent (Lord Scarman enquiry) then followed policing by media (who shouts loudest), now you have policing by…?
Policing by Clown Car.
This will continue until supposed conservatives and (real) liberals alike grow a damned spine again and start to insist on truth rather than the lies our society is currently embedding as received dogma.
Antiracism, “Pride”, and all the rest of the identity lobby ideologies are POLITICAL CREEDS. They are not some kind of basic nicenesses that can and must be imposed by force.
People are damned well entitled to be “racist”, “homophobic”, “antisemitic”, “islamophobic”, sexist etc. If it is against the law for them to be so or to express those opinions THEN THAT IS NOT A FREE SOCIETY!
Likewise, people are entitled to dislike those political positions, and even to discriminate against them and their holders, personally. But if discrimination against them is systematic and widespread then THAT IS NOT A TOLERANT SOCIETY.
All the effete agonising in the world from the likes of Toby Young about “oh obviously we all hate real racists etc and agree real “racism” etc is evil and must be witch-hunted out of existence, but it’s just not right to call these particular victims “racist” etc” isn’t going to change the underlying drive towards intolerance and unfreedom.
I get the thrust of what you’re saying, but most political issues are a spectrum and the real problem is that we’ve gone from being progressive (in my opinion) to dogmatic.
“and the real problem is that we’ve gone from being progressive (in my opinion) to dogmatic“
Imo the real problem is that we are basing our culture, and consequently its laws and institutions, on a dogmatic lie (or a set of related dogmatic lies). And we have allowed self-interested groups to paint those they disagree with as not just wrong, but evil, and to use that to justify censorship and criminalisation.
As to “gone from being progressive to dogmatic”, it depends on how you are using those words. Progressive imo is a negative, because in culture and politics there is imo no such thing as “progress”, there is just change, usually good for some, bad for others.
I think you mean that we have shifted from being reasonably opposed to nasty eg racism, to being dogmatically opposed to all supposed eg racism. That’s not wrong, but it’s just a description of the symptoms imo.
As I would put it, progressing to what? As someone else said, there is nothing new under the sun.
Yep- as an American once said, I may disagree with a man’s opinion, but I will defend to the death his right to hold it.
If someone was to suggest that those police cars look gay, would that be considered a hate crime? Asking for a friend.
Only saying horses look gay is arrest able offence to the PC-PC’s of the wokestapo department of the Metaween.
Depends what you mean by gay, perhaps. According to my dictionary, the word means – lively; bright; sportive; merry; dissipated [i.e. dissolute, especially addicted to drinking]; of loose life; showy. However, I understand that in modern slang, it has come to refer to a certain perversion that has become rather a sensitive issue…
Amazing that they can ‘appropriate’ a word so completely to mean something entirely different, (and of course imply that they are all happy and merry when the truth is rather different- trust me, they have a temper and they don’t tend to have an off switch having worked with and for gay people), yet if you wear a sombrero to a party that makes you a racist scumbag hell bent on insulting those poor Mexicans who probably couldn’t care less. It’s OK to dress up as Jesus at Christmas whilst getting completely drunk mind…
I wonder if the lights are a nice, relaxing pastel pink instead of horrid blue- and maybe the sirens have been toned down to sound less aggressive and more sort of ‘yoo-hoo!’. Just wondering…
Cars aren’t enough! They need rainbow uniforms too!
The police have been disengaging from the public since the amalgamation of forces in the 1960s and the retreat from proactively pounding pavements to reactively patrolling in cars. Eventually they progressed towards watching us with surveillance cameras rather than mixing with us and, of course, turning traffic policing into a faceless industry.
This lazy approach to policing, controlling, rather than serving, the public came to the fore with the covid hysteria as we saw them truly losing any sense of their raison d’etre. This latest descent into embarrassing posturing is hardly a surprise. But beneath it all, they’d still string up their own grandmothers if their bosses told them to.
Some satire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuoKAIw_LR4
The car looks like a clown car, the sort you would expect to turn up to childrens birthday parties. Will they be wearing big shoes and red fright wigs too?
Never mind the silly cars; money would be far better spent on fighting crime, or repairing the boarded up window in Rye’s police station, four months on.
I just pray that your daughter’s laptop was backed up. Microsoft’s OneDrive, iCloud, Dropbox or backup to a standalone hard drive are worth every penny.
Even if you do ‘Find My Mac’ and locate the postcode etc of your computer, the police will do nothing (thank you Kent Police – you are useless)
You should give the police an anonymous tip that child pornography is being viewed at that address. With any luck they will go round and seize any computers.
“We’re Jehovah’s Burglars, and we’re being persecuted by the police for our beliefs.”
“And what are your beliefs?”
“We believe you’ve got a lot of money.”
(from the wonderful Spike Milligan)
The police “service” is a box – ticking joke. Let’s get back to having a police FORCE with a back-bone and the backing of the political classes to actually arrest criminals. The judicial system equally needs to get tougher on real criminals who make our lives a misery.
Wouldn’t that be nice. Just to fantasize, I watch the re-boot of Hawaii 5-0 where they have immunity and means to basically dangle criminals from roofs and deport their families if they don’t ‘play ball’. They aren’t interested in parking tickets and if you point a gun at them they’ll shoot you regardless of who you are. Sigh. They must have a vivid imagination there people…
This just makes them look a laughing stock
Can you imagine Gene Hunt from Life on Mars reaction if he had been asked to swap his Quattro for a lovely rainbow coloured police car.
I bet bank robbers, gangsters and other such nasty criminals will be quaking in their boots when they see one of the new rainbow coloured police cars coming.
Abso-bloody-lutely! The streets are safe! Old people can live without fear!
This is the same police force that is guilty of systemic racism, etc. then. What a complete mockery of an actual police force.
Whatever happened to the Peelian Principles of Policing ?