Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

[ricky2tricky4city]

You can make this about race.

I have a feeling that's just what might be going on here.....

....to combat the race card being played against the right....the right are playing that very same card.
..

 

[Rafa87]

The National Police Chiefs Council Anti Raciam guidelines state officers must “treat white suspects differently”. It explicitly states that “racial equity does not mean treating everyone equally”.

But we don’t have two tier policing?

Police anti-racism commitment 'gives the wrong impression', minister says

The Independent Office for Police Conduct's is reviewing a guidance document from the National Police Chiefs' Council.

www.bbc.com

Maybe don’t leave out the bit that follows it:

"This particular document is a sort of values document, it's quite a short document and I don't think it forms the basis of any training or any police activity," Jones told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme.

So no, we don’t have two tier policing. I can close to guarantee that 95-99.9% of police officers have never read that document.

If anything that document strikes me as a poorly worded attempt at a sort of “we don’t want equality, we want equity” type message. Wouldn’t surprise me if it’s accompanied by the picture of three people trying to see over the fence with the boxes to stand on. As it says, it’s not involved in any training anyway.

Police training is pretty poor, but if people honestly think the police in this country are trained to treat white people worse than others, they’re idiots.

 

[K.D.D.D.D.Soc]

I'll try and move away from the race element of this issue and just try to put my personal view. Staff in emergency services mostly meet the public in traumatic circumstances where emotions are high and at least one of the parties are feeling not enough is being done for them or they are not being listened to, they are trained for this eventuality but real life is not the same as training. They are all under staffed, under resourced, work long hours and are in some form in physical danger. They are constantly given unrealistic target by people who have lost touch with "the street" who are driven by statistical results and current political climate.
They will make mistakes and they need support to do the job the public expect.
This country is in a financial hole and nobody in any political party will say this, the deeper this hole gets the division in our society will widen.
I fear for my family in the future as I can only see a divided nation with groups in constant conflict over resources.

 

[Glenda's Legs]

Supposedly you are not oppressed.

So you are saying that before now, not being oppressed has been a benefit of being white?

 

[Mikey10]

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Someone using a clip from GB news to support an argument!

It'll be Hans Christian Anderson next; more factually based.