Met Police’s ‘Two-Tier’ Policing Laid Bare in Damning New Report
The Met’s ban on a UKIP protest in Tower Hamlets, while allowing pro-Palestine marches after the Manchester synagogue attack, has laid bare the reality of two-tier policing. The Mailhas more.
A damning report by the think tank Policy Exchange today claimed that the widely held perception the force treats protest groups differently was in fact a “reality”.
In one example cited, the force applied for “very stringent conditions” on a UKIP march in Tower Hamlets on the grounds it had caused “significant concern” among the Muslim community.
Under the Public Oder Action, the Met banned UKIP from holding its protest in Whitechapel or anywhere else in the borough of Tower Hamlets on October 25th.
Meanwhile, pro-Palestine protesters were allowed to gather in London both in the aftermath of the synagogue attack in September and on the second anniversary of October 7th.
This was despite criticism from Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, who said Britain had become “indifferent to antisemitism”.
Some Jewish leaders, as well as university chiefs and senior politicians, also voiced their dismay at the timing of the demonstrations and the fact they had been allowed to go ahead.
Referring to the banning of UKIP’s protest in Tower Hamlets on October 25th, Policy Exchange’s report read: “Such a decision may well have been justified on the grounds of preventing serious public disorder.
“However, the willingness of the police to impose such stringent restrictions to safeguard the local Muslim population, while apparently being unwilling to go similarly far on behalf of the Jewish community or the broader public at previous events, indicates a readiness among senior officers to apply different standards to different groups.
“If the rationale for the force’s decision is because they feared public disorder from those resisting the protest it is tantamount to an admission that ‘mob-rule’ has taken priority over the rule of law – an unacceptable state of affairs.”
The report also found: “Too often police choose to prioritise the rights and freedoms of protestors over the rights of ordinary people going about their daily lives”, with officers failing to arrest those committing criminal damage or shouting “jihad” at pro-Palestinian rallies.
And despite the UKIP protest on October 25th being banned, masked Muslim protesters were allowed to take to the streets to “defend their communities” the same day.
Videos shared on social media show young men dressed in black, with their hoods up and their faces covered, holding pro-Palestine flags.
One protester at the Whitechapel demo took to a microphone promising to “stand firm” in defending their community from far-Right protesters.
“They came specifically targeting Islam,” he said. “They said, ‘we are coming on a crusade,’ they said ‘we need to take back our streets.’
“We stand firm to let them know if you come, we will stand firm and will be ready to defend our elders, to defend our women, to defend our community.”
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Hound of Heaven
4 months ago
Recommendations from Policy Exchange to rectify this bias are….
JAMSTER
4 months ago
“Defend our women” — they’ve got a bloody nerve. This from the adherents to one of the most misogynistic and female-suppressing religions/communities in the world. Grossly hypocritical and shows up the absurdity and cowardice of the Met protecting such people in the era of Woke Policing.
Yes exactly. Remind me when we ever heard of any white men deliberately targeting Muslim females to sexually assault. I don’t know what it is about Afghans specifically, either, but these reports just keep on coming on a daily basis, and if it’s not sexual offences it’s stabbings. Just three recent ones you may have read about. If this ( and other serious crimes they commit ) doesn’t illustrate they’re incapable of and unwilling to assimilate I don’t know what does. I mean, just how difficult is it to keep your nose clean and stay out of trouble if you were truly sincere in travelling over here for a better life? ”This is the moment two teenage Afghan asylum seekers dragged a screaming schoolgirl towards a dark park where they would rape her. Small boat migrants Jan Jahanzeb and Israr Niazal, both 17, were on Monday jailed for sexually assaulting the 15-year-old in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, on May 10. Jahanzeb was jailed for 10 years and eight months, while Niazal was jailed for nine years and 10 months, with a deduction to reflect he was younger at the time of the offence. The asylum seekers were living in taxpayer-funded houses… Read more »
Starmer seems to make just enough complaint about anti-semitism to keep his wife quiet. His heart isn’t in it because he needs the votes of anti-semites who don’t just say it they live it.
EARLGRAY
4 months ago
I found the two photographs in this article quite horrifying. I would not have guessed that this was a street in England. Hordes of young men dressed in black and wearing hoods and masks looked like a scene from the Middle East. I found it a bit ironic when one said, “We are coming on a crusade”. I thought the word ‘crusade’ was taboo in Arab circles. And then to say, “We need to take back OUR STREETS” (my emphasis) takes the biscuit. I thought that the ‘streets’ in question are English streets, but this indicates how successfully they have been taken over by foreign nationals. Under mealy-mouthed and craven politicians this situation will only get worse and I fear for the future of my grandchildren.
”When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” Maya Angelou The interesting thing is that these people are not remotely discreet or secretive about their intentions or showing us what they’re all about. This isn’t some underground movement, covertly being orchestrated from within the confines of the mosques. No, they shout it in the streets, they confidently try and convert people to Islam ( Dawah ), they make their intentions known in council meetings with their brethren, they pray en masse outdoors as a show of strength, they proudly fly their flags and brazenly rub our noses in showing everyone where their loyalty lies ( Ummah ) and they’re absolutely everywhere on the internet. You can’t move on social media for videos of them stating how they hate Christians and Jews, the West will be completely colonized by Islam and become a caliphate, Sharia law is preferable to our laws, blah blah. They hate us, they see themselves as superior and unbeatable and they won’t ever stop until they have achieved their objective. This evidence is all within the public domain, it’s not a conspiracy, and people ignore it at their peril. The irony is that… Read more »
All true and too many people find it easier not to realise that.
Richard
4 months ago
As a confirmed atheist I just find it bizarre that human beings are still fighting each other over some mythical being that Darwin and science proved was not real nearly two centuries ago.
Michael Staples
4 months ago
It seems clear to me that many Muslims are willing to offer violence to those with whom they disagree, whereas other communities are more peaceful in the face of provocation. Hence the two-tier policing where anti-Muslim protests are suppressed and everyone else has to suffer pro-Palestinian marches. Shame on the authorities.
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Recommendations from Policy Exchange to rectify this bias are….
“Defend our women” — they’ve got a bloody nerve. This from the adherents to one of the most misogynistic and female-suppressing religions/communities in the world. Grossly hypocritical and shows up the absurdity and cowardice of the Met protecting such people in the era of Woke Policing.
Yes exactly. Remind me when we ever heard of any white men deliberately targeting Muslim females to sexually assault. I don’t know what it is about Afghans specifically, either, but these reports just keep on coming on a daily basis, and if it’s not sexual offences it’s stabbings. Just three recent ones you may have read about. If this ( and other serious crimes they commit ) doesn’t illustrate they’re incapable of and unwilling to assimilate I don’t know what does. I mean, just how difficult is it to keep your nose clean and stay out of trouble if you were truly sincere in travelling over here for a better life? ”This is the moment two teenage Afghan asylum seekers dragged a screaming schoolgirl towards a dark park where they would rape her. Small boat migrants Jan Jahanzeb and Israr Niazal, both 17, were on Monday jailed for sexually assaulting the 15-year-old in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, on May 10. Jahanzeb was jailed for 10 years and eight months, while Niazal was jailed for nine years and 10 months, with a deduction to reflect he was younger at the time of the offence. The asylum seekers were living in taxpayer-funded houses… Read more »
Even Pakistan is trying to kick out their afghans.
Yet sstarmer welcomes them with open arms?
Christ on a bike.
Seems Afghanis are teenagers for a suspiciously long time……..
They’re trolling us.
This news is not really news. Just confirmation.
No doubt the BBC won’t report this.
Starmer seems to make just enough complaint about anti-semitism to keep his wife quiet. His heart isn’t in it because he needs the votes of anti-semites who don’t just say it they live it.
I found the two photographs in this article quite horrifying. I would not have guessed that this was a street in England. Hordes of young men dressed in black and wearing hoods and masks looked like a scene from the Middle East. I found it a bit ironic when one said, “We are coming on a crusade”. I thought the word ‘crusade’ was taboo in Arab circles. And then to say, “We need to take back OUR STREETS” (my emphasis) takes the biscuit. I thought that the ‘streets’ in question are English streets, but this indicates how successfully they have been taken over by foreign nationals. Under mealy-mouthed and craven politicians this situation will only get worse and I fear for the future of my grandchildren.
”When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” Maya Angelou The interesting thing is that these people are not remotely discreet or secretive about their intentions or showing us what they’re all about. This isn’t some underground movement, covertly being orchestrated from within the confines of the mosques. No, they shout it in the streets, they confidently try and convert people to Islam ( Dawah ), they make their intentions known in council meetings with their brethren, they pray en masse outdoors as a show of strength, they proudly fly their flags and brazenly rub our noses in showing everyone where their loyalty lies ( Ummah ) and they’re absolutely everywhere on the internet. You can’t move on social media for videos of them stating how they hate Christians and Jews, the West will be completely colonized by Islam and become a caliphate, Sharia law is preferable to our laws, blah blah. They hate us, they see themselves as superior and unbeatable and they won’t ever stop until they have achieved their objective. This evidence is all within the public domain, it’s not a conspiracy, and people ignore it at their peril. The irony is that… Read more »
All true and too many people find it easier not to realise that.
As a confirmed atheist I just find it bizarre that human beings are still fighting each other over some mythical being that Darwin and science proved was not real nearly two centuries ago.
It seems clear to me that many Muslims are willing to offer violence to those with whom they disagree, whereas other communities are more peaceful in the face of provocation. Hence the two-tier policing where anti-Muslim protests are suppressed and everyone else has to suffer pro-Palestinian marches. Shame on the authorities.
The Geheime Staatspolizei – was a political police force which operated to eliminate opposition to the regime.
Since Britain’s Police forces police everything but crime, it’s beginning to look a lot like…