According to the Senior Police Officer (female - but that's purely coincidence isn't it

), in charge of the Metropolitan Police Diversity (can't call it race anymore) Unit, the Met are still 'Institutionally Racist'. What a great politically correct expression that is, sits comfortably with the likes of 'position untenable' I find.
The Met is the oldest police force in the world. It has set the standard for policing world wide and is even the great grand daddie of the SIB (Bet half the monkies didn't even know that!)It polices one of the largest and most heavily populated cities in the world. London has been a magnet for every Tom, Dick and Harry for centuries. So stands to reason, that it's going to have a higher polulation of ethnics. People who will lack money, employment, education and so on and who will ghettoise areas, where they feel safer amongst their own people, where will be little in the way of language barriers etc. Each came here for a different reason.
Back to the Met.........skin colour has to be recorded during every stop and search, so officers in Peckham will have higher 'black' counts than those over in lets say......'Golders Green' as one is higher in black populus than the other and has a higher percentage of 'black led crime' (i'e the suspect/s is/are black). Now it doesn't take a great deal of arithmatic ability, to see what view will be placed upon one part of the Met in comparison with another part of the same force, when making the obviouis race allegations.
Now lets take it a little wider, how would the overall figures of the largest Police Force in the country (@28,000 officers) with lets say.......North Yorkshire (@2,500 officers). The percentage of ethnic minorities in both areas are also at opposing ends of the spectrum. The figures produced as to percentage of blacks arrested/stopped & seacrhed etc, will show an even greater divide (you never get to see the whole picture though)
The Met are damned if they do and damned if they don't.
When their senior officers are forced into politics and away from their role as law enforcement officers, the whole thing starts to collapse. The Senior Officers of the Met are now more worried about their own careers than ever. It's a phenominum not that foreign to the Army, but not one which the Army has seen up right up close and personal yet.
Even when one of the Met's most senior Officers stood up a couple of years ago in response to the 'racist allegations' made against his Force and produced evidence that the high percentage of blacks who were subjected to 'stop and search' by his officers, was due to the 'evidence' clearly stating that the suspects had fitted the descriptions given by the victims.............it wasn't enough? I'm lost for words on this one......anybody suggest why that was perhaps?
No person in their right mind condones the murder of anyone. I feel sorry for the Lawrences, but I'm getting fed up now hearing their sons name being used as a tool to constantly beat into shape something which will never fit in the eyes of rational men and women. Their son was murdered. Whether he was black or white, it should never have happened, but to accuse a Police Force of applying less effort into an investigation because the victim was black I find galling. Not in this country. Other's maybe, but not here. And I'm not wearing any blinkers.
How many Met Officers were sacked for incompetance on the back of that enquiry? How many were tried in court as 'racists'.......that was the accusation wasn't it?
The Lawrences need to move on with their lives. They are currently being used themselves as tools to achieve the goals of others.
No, I'm not a copper...............who would want to be when you're judged so harshly for doing your job.
And no...........I'm not racist. But I do feel the overwhelming need to retract that last comment as I don't see why I should make this qualification (it's more than probably because I'm scared that's what you'll think of me)