Anti-Racism Police Unit Accused of Racism
A team established within the police to “make policing anti-racist” has itself been accused of racism. The Telegraph’s Ewan Somerville has the story.
The Police Race Action Plan was launched after the murder of the black man George Floyd by a white police officer in the US in 2020.
Developed by the College of Policing and the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), it claims to “make policing anti-racist” and “not over-police” black people by tackling racial disparities in stop and search, arrests and homicides.
When it was published last May, the plan said: “We accept that policing still contains racism, discrimination and bias. We are ashamed of those truths, we apologise for them and we are determined to change them.
“We have much to do to secure the confidence of black people, including our own staff, and improve their experience of policing – and we will.”
Now, former staff members in the unit have accused it of racism.
A black former member, who asked to remain anonymous, told BBC Newsnight they believed people like them were seen as “troublemakers or difficult”, and were treated differently to their white colleagues, with no more support offered as workloads increased.
“It was openly questioned if black people were even needed to work on the plan. I increasingly felt my voice and – at times – my lived and professional experience were being ignored,” they said.
Another former member said the entire process left them “completely disillusioned”.
They explained: “The fact that these behaviours (racism) have been displayed on a programme that set out with the good intention to ‘improve the experience for black people working in or interacting with police’ was perplexing, and left me thinking at times how serious the police were in wanting to make tangible change.”
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Oh the absurdity…
“The future of this great country is dependent upon purging it of all the racists!”
In a interview with Mike Wallace for the show 60 Minutes.
“how’re we supposed to end racism without it (Black History Month)?” Morgan Freeman responded, “Stop talking about it. I’m going to stop calling you a white man. And I’m going to ask you to stop calling me a black man. I know you as Mike Wallace. You know me as Morgan Freeman.”
Indeed. Morgan Freeman talks common sense, something in very short supply these days.
At a cursory glance, in London,there’s the Association of Muslim Police, the British Association for Women in Policing and the Metropolitan Black Police Association.
Were I a male white bobby on the beat, I’d feel somewhat excluded, not to say marginalised.
That sounds like institutionalised racism to me.
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I have never understood “lived experience.”
Could anybody enlighten me by advising what an “unlived experience” might be?
Good question. “Lived experience” is what marginalised people have. As far as the rest of us go, our experiences are irrelevant. “Marginalised” is hard to define but non-gay white people certainly don’t make it into that group. Of course, “marginalised” is not especially to do with how marginalised any person or group actually is, it’s just a convenient way to further an agenda to destroy good things.
Thanks tof but what actually is a “lived experience?” Can I have an experience that is not “lived?” Does that mean I am dead? And once dead vocabulary has no meaning.
Surely being alive is “experience?”
“I increasingly felt my voice and – at times – my lived and professional experience were being ignored,”
Perhaps this windbag needs to learn English:
‘I increasingly felt my voice was being ignored.’
That’s better.
Of course it’s nonsense, but the intention is to divide and cause trouble. The implication is that certain people and their “lived experiences” are undervalued as compared to others, or are more important, and that these people must be listened to and are victims of horrid people like me.
“Lived experience” = lies that trump stats.
It’s wokespeak.
For example, if you disagree and argue – i.e. civilly debate (not quarrel) – with one of these people, they’ll refuse to engage or address your point and instead will tell you, “I feel professionally devalued by your criticism and you have impacted on my dignity”, and then they’ll cancel you.
I speak from lived experience!
You couldn’t make it up. The police should be rubbed out and redrawn.
Correct me if I’ve got this wrong.
If you ask for equality & get treated equally badly, why is that suddenly racist? Or was what you were after preferential treatment? Which is favouritism in my book.
They explained: “The fact that these behaviours (racism) have been displayed on a programme that set out with the good intention to ‘improve the experience for black people working in or interacting with police’ was perplexing, and left me thinking at times how serious the police were in wanting to make tangible change.”
Why are they surprised? These initiatives are not actually about improving the lot of racial minorities.
Anti-racism is racism!
Get up of your knees you squirming mamby pamby pussies.