Police Paradox: The more top brass fixate on Wokeness, the more anti-Woke officers become

The paradox facing Britain's biggest force: The more top brass fixate on wokeness, the more anti-woke its officers become

Scotland Yard laid bare: rape samples stored next to a lunchbox in the fridge, sex toys slipped into coffee mugs and officers left bacon in a Muslim colleague's boots

'The rape detection rate is so low you may as well say it's legal in London': rape victims made to feel like an inconvenience

Force is broken, rotten, institutionally racist, corrupt, misogynistic and homophobic

• Victims told they 'should & could have done more' to protect themselves
• officers desperate to close cases with NFA – 'no further action' 

Officers contempt for the law is matched only by their disdain for women, gay people and minorities.

Weak leadership, mismanagement, warped priorities and ill-conceived policies have left the public vulnerable

A deeply depressing document but, for me, not a surprising one. As the former Commissioner of Thames Valley Police – the largest force in the country outside London, Birmingham and Manchester – I was only too aware of the appalling problems at the Met.

In the sprawling mass of the capital, public confidence in the police was evaporating as violent crime worsened, corruption became rife and woke ideology triumphed, distorting everything from recruitment of officers to the fight against Islamist terrorism.

The Met's performance has been dismal on almost every front. Despite the leadership's obsession with 'diversity', racism, misogyny and homophobia are rampant.

Women are subjected to 'shocking treatment and attitudes'.  On WhatsApp groups banter could consist of remarks such as: 'Knock a bird about and she will love you: human nature.'

One officer even sent a female colleague a message that read, 'I would happily rape you'.

More than 1,500 officers have been accused of violent offences against women and girls, yet less than 1 per cent of them have been sacked.

Too many of those in senior positions are the products of progressive education peddled by woke university courses. They are more concerned with social engineering than with fighting crime.

Politically correct dogma not only weakens their own authority but also distorts vital policies on recruitment and promotion. 

Hiring new applicants should not descend into a box-ticking exercise in identity politics – as it manifestly has.

In the vacuum created by weak leadership, an inevitable backlash against the woke agenda has flourished.

That helps to explain a bizarre paradox: the more the Met's top brass fixates on wokeness, the more anti-woke much of its workforce becomes.

the Met is simply too big. Unwieldy, full of bureaucratic empires that have little to do with crime- fighting and lacking in real accountability, its bloated size is a recipe for waste, corruption and mismanagement.

any capacity for real change is wishful thinking. In its present ramshackle state, the force is beyond repair.

source article: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11883597/ANTHONY-STANSFELD-Mets-brass-fixate-wokeness-bigoted-officers-become.html

Evidence from countless rape probes has been destroyed because of broken fridges and freezers, the review found. A lunchbox was found in the same fridge as rape samples – a mistake that would have contaminated the evidence.

Forensic kits that preserve evidence obtained from survivors of sexual violence, including swabs, blood, urine and underwear, are stuffed in fridges so full it takes three officers to close them – one to push the door closed, one to hold it shut and one to secure the lock.

All the fridges used for rape kits were in bad shape, packed and ruining evidence.

freezers were overflowing with evidence samples, frosted over or taped shut. In a heatwave last year, one broke down and all rape victims whose samples were in that fridge were told their cases would be dropped

One female officer said she had 'lost count' of the number of times she had asked a colleague where the necessary evidence was before being told that it had been lost.

Another officer told of year-long waits for toxicology results and forensic examination of phones. Separately police are being told to regularly delete their WhatsApps in the wake of a string of scandals about officers swapping messages with each other.

One Muslim officer said: 'I found bacon left in my boots inside my locked locker."

In Scotland Yard's armed units senior armed officers put up posters in common areas showing female firearms officers carrying mops, irons and kettles instead of weapons.

Officers are told it is alright to 'colour outside the lines' – meaning to bend and break rules – because firearms police are harder to replace. 

officers 'game the system' to cash in on overtime and other bonuses.

An officer who complains is made out to be a 'troublemaker'.

Almost one in five lesbian, gay, or bisexual staff surveyed said they had experienced homophobia and 14 per cent said it was once or twice a week.

Baroness Casey said the force was institutionally homophobic, adding that 30 per cent of LGBTQ+ employees said they had been bullied.

The review found the force was institutionally racist.

One senior officer was openly asked in a large meeting in 2022: 'Did you get to where you got to because you are black?'

'You have to try and be invisible as a black woman... If you complain you get a reputation as being trouble and then supervisors try and pass you on to other teams.'

rape and domestic violence victims were made to feel like an 'inconvenience' and 'gaslighted' by overworked and inexperienced officers.

 'If you look at our performance around rape, serious sexual offences, the detection rate is so low you may as well say it's legal in London. 

'It's kind of reflective of how we treat and view our female colleagues. You get victim-blaming, looking at a situation and not believing them.'

Rape victims described being told they 'should and could have done more' to protect themselves by sarcastic, rude and dismissive investigators.

Many officers are desperate to close cases with NFA – 'no further action'. One admitted: 'The incentive is get it NFA'd because we have to do so much work to get it up and then the Crown Prosecution Service will NFA anyway.'

A community officer added: 'The best outcome is closing a report to reduce your workload.'

Domestic abuse crimes have doubled in London since 2012 and reported rapes have also gone up 244 per cent over this period, leaving officers swamped with work and dealing with 65 rape cases at a time.

Researchers found a woman raped and left in a coma was likely to be dealt with by a trainee detective. 

Officers said victims could wait months to hear about their case and some were left suicidal. 

One said: 'You don't want to be a victim of rape in London. Anyone who relies on policing in London for anything I'm scared for.'

Baroness Casey said the force had lost public trust and become 'unanchored' from the founding principles established by Robert Peel in 1829:  fundamentally the prevention of crime and disorder by preventive foot patrols.