Island-Gründer kritisiert „zweistufige Polizeiarbeit“, nachdem Beamte zum Geschäft stürmten, als ein verdächtiger Kunde den Mitarbeitern fälschlicherweise Rassismus vorwarf – gewalttätige Ladendiebe wurden jedoch ignoriert
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15880017/Iceland-chief-cops-rushed-store-bogus-racism-claim-ignore-shoplifters.html
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It’s specifically within police policy that “hate incidents” must receive enhanced service, well intentioned, but silly in practice, especially with how hilariously low the threshold is for something to declared a hate incident.
There does seem to be a double standard in police prioritisation of attention.
Not even race related, local theft and robbery gets less attention than financial crime for example.
It’s clear that to police(and other powers that be) that money matters more.
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I’m don’t think this is what is normally meant by two-tier policing. This is just the police allocating resources in a certain way, probably because they’ve been told to do so by higher ups and/or politicians.
Yay. More far right talking points presented as fact on the website of a newspaper. Of course an eighty year old business founder with a couple of hundred million in the bank parrots Reform talking points and of course the Daily Mail runs with it without questioning any of it at all.
Not to give the police a pass for shaking down a person like that, but the idea they wouldn’t show up for any other offence is accepted as fact by the writer when it’s literally just the opinion of some rich guy.
Next time someone’s breaking into your garage, house or whatever, don’t call it a burglary. Just say they made you feel racially discriminated against. You’ll have three police cars there before they’ve loaded the van it seems 😂
Yea no shit. A person being attacked is more important to deal with than a multi-billion corp losing 30-40 quid.
Malcom Walker, the [Reform and Nigel Farage supporter](https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/lord-walker-i-dont-think-anyone-expecting-price-stuff-go-down-longterm-fact-id-hope-doesnt)? Shocked.
Why does everything have to be politicised nowadays, including supermarkets?
I think the wrong type of people are the police. People shouldn’t need a degree to join the police.
It might be the same in the prison service too?
A large supermarket will typically have the police attending several times a week, maybe more. There are nearly 1000 Iceland stores in the UK. The police probably attend Iceland stores tens of thousands of times a year, at the very least.
Once in a while they will turn up very quickly because there happens to be a car nearby that has just finished whatever they were doing.
The founder of Iceland can highlight a case when they turned up quickly, and compare that to the average response time. That absolutely does not prove that the police prioritise one type of case over another.
As to why the assistant was handcuffed and „dragged“ to the police car, who knows? Presumably „dragged“ is a turn of phrase, unless he was being extremely uncooperative. If it really happened like that, maybe there is something else we are not being told? We only have the description of the founder, who I believe wasn’t actually there at the time, maybe there are extra details he is not aware of?
I would take this with a very large pinch of salt. Everything in the article might well be true, but there are good reasons not to jump to any conclusions based on such incomplete information.
Kemi Badenoch has explained she doesn’t approve of race obsessed policing, she speaks for a lot of ethnic minorities including myself. An estimates 0.4 percent of humanity has psychopathic tendencies, so its possible some the 0.4 percent group can use the race card to get away with criminal acts.
My message to leftie do gooders, wake up. I think Farage is part of that 0.4 percent, after his underhand incitement of riots. He claims to believe white lives matter, except when its the Epstein network, because Trump may have been involved.
The problem is, if the government ever seek to reverse this silly policy within police guidelines that make treatment of hate crimes higher priority than pretty much everything else, the Guardian and BBC will run articles like ‘policing goes back to the 1960s’ and ‘big step backwards for tackling racism’ etc. These policies are well intentioned but ultimately naive and harmful, as they don’t account for how deeply dishonest many people (including black and brown) are
„‚They do not bother most of the time ringing the police because it doesn’t seem to make a difference.“
Whether you think it makes a difference or not is besides the point. It should be company policy that the Store Manager contacts the police every time. Pretty wild to admit that isnt the case in a national newspaper.
Some crimes are treated with a higher priority than others. That’s not 2 tier policing; that’s just „policing“
Police arresting someone who caught another person tampering with milk boggles my mind, especially if the officers didn’t also investigate that allegation. Potentially, that’s attempted poisoning.
It’s possible that the person who was caught doing it turned the allegation around onto the shop supervisor, and the police focused on the racism allegation while ignoring what caused the altercation in the first place.
i think there’s only a mall number of crimes more serious than than causing distrust on the nation’s food sources.
I don’t think it’s concerning that they sent officers out in itself.
> Met Police
*Quel surprise*. Worst police force in the UK IMO.
British police do not handcuff people unless they are violent or going to try and run away etc. Its not a matter of course like in the USA. I find it EXTREMELY hard to believe that the police pilled in and immediately handcuffed and dragged off a member of staff.
This story is either missing nearly all the details, is a gross exaggeration or is completely made up.
Yes, but the reasons behind it, which the article has helpfully left out in order to stir the conspiracy pot, are what we should actually be talking about if we want things to change.
**If** the police headcount and budget hasn’t gone up significantly in years or decades, which it hasn’t, and **if** police are also judged on success and budget justification by successful prosecutions, which they are, and **if** the population of the communities they work across has increased, stretching their capacity, which it has, then naturally there will come a point where the police are incentivised to focus on captures and prosecutions for easy crimes that will process quickly rather than more difficult ones.
An organised and violent shoplifter that knows their tactics is likely part of a crime ring that will be harder to catch and prosecute. A single verbally abusive idiot is easier to catch, hold, try, and punish. It’s absolutely logical – if generally unhelpful to the public and community cohesion – that police would try and rack up their figures by catching ten of these a day rather than spending the same effort and amount of officers on trying to catch, subdue and lock up a single much harder target.
Change the way the police is funded so they’re incentivised to focus on certain crimes, I say.
>The entrepreneur made a formal complaint to Scotland Yard after the Asian supervisor was handcuffed and dragged to a police car by officers who rushed to the scene when a black customer made a complaint of racism after being caught tampering with milk bottles.
The guy arrested was Asian so how are we defining two tier policing now?
Police are more likely to attend potentially violent incidents than incidents which have already happened. This is a failure of our current police funding as they should do both but it is understandable why they would attend ongoing incidents.
I live in a timeline where Tommy Robinson was ACTUALLY right about the two-tier police.
Please, someone wake me up from this nightmare called United Kingdom
I actually care more about racism than I do about people shoplifting in Iceland fuck Iceland.
Racism causes wars, division and fear in our society and Iceland as a business pedal shite quality horse meat nuggets and I honestly couldn’t care less if their whole company disappeared forever.
I would say racism definitely should be a higher priority for police than theft from Iceland.
So take that daily heil
The entrepreneur made a formal complaint to Scotland Yard after the Asian supervisor was handcuffed and dragged to a police car by officers who rushed to the scene when a black customer made a complaint of racism after being caught tampering with milk bottles
Three minutes later a police car arrives and they immediately handcuff our member of staff.
‚This member of staff was taken away for two or three hours before the matter was dropped
Three minute response time? Lucky to get a 3 day response on a break in….
Hmm a human person in danger versus a packet of fucking cheese being in danger