Die Polizei von Met deckt 4.000 Fälle potenzieller Grooming-Banden auf, während Sadiq Khan wegen Londoner Behauptungen einer neuen Prüfung unterzogen wird

I’m not sure why Khan wasn’t more careful with his original replies to Hall (“there are no reported cases and also no indication of the grooming gangs that she is concerned about in London”). Just set himself up to look stupid if and when this happened.

For a [slightly less propagandised take](https://ca.news.yahoo.com/met-police-could-reopen-more-084456486.html) on the story, from yahoo news:

*A source told the
newspaper said the cases that had been reviewed were a mixture of
intrafamilial, online and in-person child sexual abuse and exploitation.*

*A
source told the Standard the criteria of cases that had been identified
for review were „much broader“ than „the profile most typically
associated with commentary or reporting on grooming gangs“.*

So 4000 cases of previously reported sexual abuse are being reexamined by the NCA. The likelihood is that the majority won’t be pursued for the same reasons they weren’t the first time round (lack of evidence, etc.), and it appears that they dont really fit the highly racialised ‚grooming gangs‘ narrative that GBeebies the right wing press are so keen on, meaning its hugely disingenuous for this article to frame it as if this is evidence of another Rotherham style scandal. 

As always with these sorts of stories, they choose the headline carefully and drop the context much further down in the article, where 50% won’t read it.

>In areas such as South Yorkshire and Greater Manchester, perpetrators in high-profile grooming gang cases have predominantly been Pakistani Muslim men.

Then a purely randomly placed set of links and pictures before they follow with:

>However, London’s cases are understood to involve a broader range of offender backgrounds and include intrafamilial abuse, online exploitation and in-person offending.

If it brings people to account who were previously missed then it’s a good thing, without question – and once the cases have been properly investigated then figures can be discussed, but in the meantime it’s far more important that they get in a hit piece about Khan for something he said that was possibly slightly unwise or open to being used against him.

The cases investigated go back to 2010 – Who was the London Mayor then, GBnews? Or was Khan responsible for this (checks notes) 6 years before he took office?

There is group based CSE happening in every community, in every part of the country, all the time – there always has been and always will be – it’s almost always within authority structures, which can be extended families (by far the most common), schools, clubs, churches.

Absolutely go after all of it and root it out, which means spending money on police, courts, and the rest of our failing justice system.

I cant read the article because im not giving a single cookie to gb news, and expect its full of bullshit anyway.

Regardless, generally london is full of high powered business and politics pricks from all over the world. As we’ve seen, among those circles, there is a market for child serial exploitation.

I would not be shocked to discover London is full of grooming gangs and the met spends more time arresting impoverished teenagers for fighting eachother, because ultimately the rich get a different set of rules to live by and London is full of rich people.

20 comments rejecting the story because they don’t like the messenger. Rather predictable.