Nach Ermittlungen hat die Polizei eine Gruppe ausspioniert, die gegründet wurde, um Fehlverhalten in Met aufzudecken

The Sarah Everard and Daniel Morgan murders (as just two examples) show the police are a gang with warrant cards and very decent healthcare schemes.

They do whatever the fuck they want without appropriate oversight.

I’m sort of running out of things to say about the plod at this point.

There’s a story every few days revealing some huge issue of corruption, malfeasance and dishonesty in British policing and I’ve pretty much exhausted my vocabulary on the subject. The hypocrisy is so normalised that most police just don’t see what they’re doing as wrong.

This country has many serious problems at the moment. One of them is the way police behave. I don’t think there’s a solution which doesn’t involve pretty much rebuilding policing from the ground up, ideally involving almost none of the people who are currently involved in it.