Whilst there are without a doubt some decent individual officers in London’s Metropolitan Police, but the organisation as a whole does not have the best of reputations. It is only barely managing but sometimes failing to keep a lid on the normal crimes that a big city like London is inevitably plagued with. Also London’s crime problems are now so great that the Met Police is basically reacting to crime that has already occurred, rather than preventing it from happening in the first place.
The Metropolitan Police are short of front line officers yet waste money hand over fist on stuff that is basically guff, such as their well resourced ‘Hate crime and hate speech’ unit that the Greater London Mayor and local Police and Crime Commissioner Sadiq Khan had set up. The Met have closed down lots of local police stations ensuring that the public have less and less local contact with their police force.
Then there are the growing rumours that the Metropolitan Police might have Islamic Rape Gangs operating in their area which they’ve done little or nothing about due to political reasons. The reason this rumour is growing is that London has a similar demographic to those places that have been afflicted by these gangs but there doesn’t seem to have been many, if any, prosecutions of any rape gangs from the London area. We shall have to wait and see whether these rumours have any truth in them.
Then there is the Met’s now obvious ‘Islamopandering’. We can see that for about a year and a quarter following the 7/10 Hamas-led Pogrom in Israel, the Metropolitan Police has allowed various Jew hating pro-Hamas groups to strut their stuff on the streets of the capital. The majority of those attending these pro-Hamas hate marches have been Lefties and Muslims, two groups that the Met often goes easy on with regards to how they are policed. It was even revealed during the course of these weekly Saturday hate marches that the Met was taking advice from Muslim advisors who if not extremist themselves certainly appeared to be extremism adjacent. In one case the Met allegedly used one of these advisors to put out a definition of ‘jihad’ that talked down the violence associated with that word when Muslim anti-Jewish demonstrators were heard chanting for jihad.
Bad management, poor use of resources, Islamopandering and selective enforcement of the law are just a few of the criticisms that can be levelled at the Metropolitan Police. But just as a broken analogue clock tells the correct time twice a day, the Met have managed to get one thing correct.
Following pressure from MP’s, Peers and others the Met have finally made good use of Britain’s Public Order Acts and do something that they’ve failed to do for well over a year. At last the Met have banned a ‘Palestine Solidarity Campaign’ pro-Hamas/anti-Israel demonstration from forming up near a central London synagogue on January 18th.
This is a good move by the Met as it has been clear to many of us that many of those attending these hate marches are motivated not by sympathy for the so-called ‘Palestinians’ but from hatred of Jews which is a feature and not a bug of both Islamic and Left wing extremism. It has also been noted that there is an element of two tier policing in how the Met has handled these hate marches. It has been pointed out that had some right wing or patriot group for example wanted to march or form up near a mosque that was linked to extremism, then the Met would have acted extremely swiftly and banned such a march.
But the Met has finally got something correct at last. No longer will the organisers of these hate marches be able to form up near a synagogue on Saturday, which is the Jewish sabbath, using the excuse that they want to protest against the BBC who are based in the nearby Broadcasting House.
The London Evening Standard said:
The Met Police has blocked plans for a Pro-Palestine march near the BBC’s headquarters in central London as it will take place close to a synagogue.
The force has used powers under the Public Order Act to prevent the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) from gathering outside Broadcasting House in Portland Place ahead of a march to Whitehall on Saturday, 18 January.
Conditions enforced by the police will now prevent protesters from gathering in the busy street and the surrounding area.
Scotland Yard previously told the PSC to alter its plans to avoid “serious disruption” to the congregation of a nearby synagogue – and had threatened to impose the Public Order Act conditions to stop the rally.
The Met should have done this a year ago. It was clearly and plainly obvious who the target for the marcher’s animus was and that was Britain’s Jews. If this was a group that had a hatred for Muslims and wanted to form up near for example the East London Mosque then it would not have got past the planning stage. But the Met have allowed mobs of thousands of Leftist and Islamic Jew haters to mar the capital for over a year putting off Jews from visiting central London and also doing great damage to tourism and trade in the capital.
So at least on this one it’s belated and begrudging praise from the Met from me. They’ve finally decided that it’s the right idea to take their collective tongues out of the arses of the Leftist and Islamic groups behind these hate marches and imposing more stricter conditions than they normally would on them.