Clearly, Britain is one of the most crime-free countries in the world. There’s plainly no stabbings, rapes or rampant theft. In fact, Britain is so obviously safe and law-abiding that the police are struggling to find anything to occupy their time.
Why else would they be dedicating so much manpower and resources to ‘non-crime incidents’ like meany social-media posts or lads wolf-whistling girls in the parks?
Apparently we have so much spare police-power that LBC radio recently reported on an extraordinary phenomena whereby undercover female cops have been dressing up in skintight lycra and jogging through public parks in order to attract cat-callers – who then get a scolding by a nearby crack-team of nags, presumably concealed by bushes. A spokesperson for Surrey police tutted: ‘These behaviours may not be criminal offences in themselves, but they need to be addressed.’
No, those behaviours aren’t criminal offences – so why are the police wasting their time on them? Instead of, y’know, doing their job of catching criminals?
As taxpayers, we pay the police a lot of money to solve crimes and catch criminals. But it appears that we are not exactly getting bang for our buck, with criminal behaviour becoming ever more acceptable and the police response less reliable. The epidemic in shoplifting is often cited, culminating recently in a North Wales shopkeeper putting up a sign saying ‘Due to scumbags shoplifting, please ask for assistance to open cabinets’. Only then did a policeman visit, having been alerted by a somewhat over-sensitive member of the public claiming that the sign was ‘provocative and offensive’.
There is a feeling that police are scared of actual criminals and far prefer to bully law-abiding citizens for stating obvious truths about the impossibility of a man becoming a woman or singing Christian songs in the street. The ‘mind the grab – phone-snatching hotspot’ tape which has recently appeared on the kerbs of Oxford Street as part of an initiative by the electronics shop Currys is the latest apparent surrender by the forces of law and order to the criminal fraternity.
The rozzers defended their ‘bizarre social-psychology experiment’ (as the Free Speech Union correctly dubbed it), arguing that if they didn’t bang up wolf-whistling lad, his behaviour might ‘escalate’. Perhaps they should spend less time in the parks and more time keeping an eye on their own.
What a shame none of his colleagues in the Met thought to deter PC Wayne Couzens on his ‘escalation’ on the way to the murder of Sarah Everard. (The fifteenth woman killed by a policeman – that we know of – in 12 years.)He exposed himself three times, with witnesses reporting registration details of vehicles he used, but police took no action, leaving him to continue as a serving police officer affectionately known as ‘The Rapist’ to his colleagues. As Ruth Davison of Refuge said at the time of his sentencing, ‘Wayne Couzens pleaded guilty to three counts of indecent exposure. His car number plate was given to Met police officers, who should have carried out the correct checks to identify him as a serial sex offender and working within the force. He should have been immediately suspended from duty and investigated. Instead this didn’t happen and he was free, just days later, to escalate his behaviour and murder Sarah Everard using his status as a police officer, utilising handcuffs and his warrant card to coerce Sarah into getting into a car with him.’
Indeed, it’s beginning to look far too much as if the UK police’s wolf-whistling crackdown is little more than a gaslighting operation designed to deflect attention from themselves. After all, the police not only turned a willful blind eye to decades of child-rape by Pakistani rape gangs, but actively abetted them. Girls who bravely reported their abuse were not just dismissed as ‘prostitutes’ by police, but themselves arrested, not the rapists. So were the girls’ parents, in some cases.
The only people UK police refused to arrest were the child-rape gangs. Why not? Did the police have something to hide, too?
The grooming gangs have gone quiet, though one would have to be a certified half-wit to believe they’ve shut up shop. The focus now is on freelance sex attackers. Witness the women of all hues who have been protesting outside the migrant hotels, which house charmers such as Aron Hadsh from Eritrea, who sexually assaulted a young woman with learning difficulties – and was handed a 14-month prison sentence
Which is a shorter sentence than handed out to Julie Sweeney for a Facebook post. And nothing like the effectively life sentence meted out to Kevin Crehan, who died in prison after committing the heinous crime of putting bacon on the doorhandles of a mosque.
