London police chief Cressida Dick told to resign to restore women’s confidence in police
She was known to be incompetent long before she was parachuted into the top job. She was in charge of the operation which led to an innocent Brazilian electrician being shot and killed on a tube train by London police
So why was she given such undeserved preference? She is an open lesbian and that puts her into a protected class
Cressida Dick must resign to restore women’s confidence in the Metropolitan Police, senior politicians said on Thursday after details emerged of the failures that led to an officer falsely arresting a woman to kidnap and murder her.
The chair of parliament’s women and equalities committee, Tory MP Caroline Nokes, joined former Labour justice secretary Harriet Harman and a chorus of others in calling for the commissioner to step down over Sarah Everard’s killing.
The Met chief was forced to admit the crimes of Wayne Couzens had broken the bond of trust between the public and police.
“There are no words that can express the fury and overwhelming sadness that we all feel about what happened to Sarah,” she said outside the Old Bailey where Couzens was given a whole life-sentence. “I am so sorry.”
Couzens, who murdered Ms Everard after kidnapping her in south London under the guise of an arrest, had been known by police colleagues as “the rapist” because of his behaviour – and had already been questioned about an alleged sex offence shortly before he killed his victim.
Five officers are reportedly under investigation for sharing offensive material with Couzens in a WhatsApp group before the killing.
The force also admitted on Thursday that a 2015 allegation of indecent exposure linked to Couzens was missed during his vetting process, and that investigations continue into whether he was responsible for other unsolved crimes.
It later took the extraordinary step of issuing safety advice to women who are suspicious of male officers, suggesting they “shout out to a passer-by, run into a house or wave a bus down” if in fear.
Ms Harman, who chairs parliament’s joint human rights committee, told the commissioner in a letter it was “not possible” for her to stay in post as “women’s confidence in the police has been shattered”.
Adding to the pressure, Ms Nokes told The Independent: “It is clear that change is needed in the Met, to make sure the confidence of women is restored. Rebuilding the trust that is needed will be an enormous challenge for Cressida Dick, and one I am not convinced she can meet.”
Yvette Cooper, who chairs parliament’s home affairs committee, said there should be a wide-ranging independent inquiry into the “deep failures in policing” that allowed Couzens to serve as an officer, as well as the wider culture in the service.
Explaining her call for Dame Cressida to quit, Ms Harman said: “There have been many warnings about perpetrators of male violence against women within the police force, which she has not acted on, and she has not heeded.
“It was on her watch that Wayne Couzens’ offences, that he’d carried out, sexual offences, a few days before, were swept under the carpet, by his colleagues and not investigated. So, she also responded by saying he was a ‘bad ’un’, like it was one bad apple. I think she showed that she is not the person to be the change that is necessary.”
Writing to home secretary Priti Patel, Ms Harman spelt out a seven-step plan to reform the police in the wake of the killing.
The MP said all serving police officers against whom there was an allegation of violence against women should be routinely suspended.
She said any officer who admitted or was found guilty of such an offence should be immediately dismissed from the force, that all recruits should be pre-screened for their attitudes towards women, and that officers who transfer between forces should face checks.
The Labour MP said: “I think the home secretary will ask herself: does she as home secretary need to make absolutely certain that that precious bond of trust between women in London, and the police is absolutely secure as home secretary, she is found to know that that is her responsibility.
“She’s bound to know that there needs to be dramatic, and immediate action and she will also know that she will not be able to rely on Cressida Dick to take these forward with determination. And therefore, I think that she will want to ask Cressida Dick to resign.”
Ms Patel was asked whether the Commissioner should resign, and replied: “There are important questions and questions that I’ve been asking, and challenges: we have to be honest about this in particular to this case, but also the conduct of that serving officer and conduct of policing more broadly.
“So, I will continue to work with the Metropolitan Police and the commissioner to hold them to account as everybody would expect me to do.”
Ms Harman's view is a break from her party line, as leader Sir Keir Starmer as repeatedly defended the commissioner and said she should not be replaced. He had told ITV’s Good Morning Britain programme earlier on Thursday: “I have worked with Cressida Dick over many years in relation to some very serious operations when I was director of public prosecutions. I was pleased that her contract was extended and I support her.”
But another senior police officer, former Met chief superintendent Parm Sandhu told Times Radio that “the buck stops with the boss and the boss is Cressida”.
She added: “This has happened on her watch. We need a new set of fresh eyes, somebody who’s going to be independent, who’s not going to be afraid of turning over those stones and finding those awful reptiles underneath it.”
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'What's up with white women?': American Booksellers Association is slammed for promoting anti-racist workshop with racist message
The American Booksellers Association was slammed by online critics after they promoted an anti-racist workshop called 'What's Up with White Women?'
The virtual event, subtitled 'Unpacking Sexism and White Privilege in Pursuit of Racial Justice is being held on October 21.'
Anti-racist coordinators Ilsa Govan and Tillman Smith are hosting the workshop which 'is open to all booksellers, regardless of how they identify, but will speak specifically to white cisgender women, trans women, and non-binary folks who have internalized feminine gender norms.'
Govan and Smith were asked to facilitate the event to look further into the behaviors and assumptions made by white women - but have been blasted over their plans online.
'As we strive toward racial justice, there's an opportunity for people who identify as white women to examine how they have navigated sexism and misogyny and internalized white superiority,' the event description read.
The workshop claims it will focus on creating authentic cross-cultural relationships by examining three types of behavior including control, perfectionism and effectiveness.
The announcement of the workshop was met with negative reaction by online Twitter users who slammed the idea as racist.
'I'm sorry, but this is incredibly racist,' Ian Miles Cheong of the Post Millennial commented.
'[Y]our anti racist book sounds kinda racist,' The Blaze's Jessica O'Donnell said.
'I don't think they understand what racism means...' radio host Larry O'Connor said.
ABA responded to the criticism on by deleting the original poster, but then insisting that the workshop was still running as planned. 'ABA's antiracism workshop is still scheduled,' the organization tweeted. 'However, in support of our community and out of concern for the security of the event, we have removed the post with registration details.
'ABA is committed to this work and will share new registration information with members directly.'
The organization was founded in 1900 as a non-profit trade association that promoted independent bookstores in the country.
Independent bookstores are said to 'serve a unique role in promoting the open exchange of ideas, enriching the cultural life of communities, and creating economically vibrant neighborhoods.
The anti-racism workshop is not the first controversial incident the ABA has encountered.
In July, the organization was slammed for mixing up the descriptions of books with the title Blackout. Blackout was both a romance anthology series and a Candace Owens book.
'It was a terrible mistake with terrible racist implications,' CEO Allison Hill said, according to Lit Hub. 'However...we have no reason to believe the action was malicious in intention.'
The company also distributed 750 copies of a controversial book called Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters.
The bestselling book is written by Wall Street Journalist Abigail Shrier, and focuses on claims that children who think they might be trans are being railroaded into potentially serious treatments.
An ABA spokesman issued a groveling statement branding its promotion of the title - which has infuriated some pro-trans activists - as 'violent.'
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FBI’s 2020 Crime Stats Show Massive Rise in Murder Rate in "Defund the Police" Cities
The FBI has released its 2020 crime statistics and the murder rate has soared, but unsurprisingly it has happened mostly in cities that have joined the defund the police movement.
According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report, the murder rate has increased nearly 30 percent. Per PJ Media:
The previous largest one-year change was a 12.7 percent increase back in 1968. The national rate of murders per 100,000, however, still remains about one-third below the rate in the early 1990s.
The FBI data show around 21,500 total murders last year, which is 5,000 more murders than in 2019. More than three-fourths of reported murders in 2020 were committed with a firearm, the highest rate ever reported.
Murder rose by 35 percent in cities with populations over 250,000, and also jumped more than 40 percent in cities with 100,000 to 250,000 residents. Even towns with under 25,000 people saw a roughly 25 percent increase in homicides.
Liberals have started claiming that the murder rate can be blamed on COVID. But Dan Bongino recently noted on Fox News’The Five that all the worst cities are run by Democrats.
The most recent numbers show that the top ten most dangerous cities are run by Democrats. Well, nine are officially run by leftist Democrats while the tenth is run by a so-called independent… who stopped identifying as a Democrat to run as an independent.
“One example, Philadelphia, now leads the country in murder rate-per-capita among large cities – with more than 300 people killed on its streets in 2021 through July,” Fox reported. “The birthplace of the United States has not had a Republican mayor since Bernard Samuel in 1952, while the late former Mayor Frank Rizzo – who left office in 1980, did become a Republican in his later years.”
Other shocking stats in the crime report include:
An estimated 1,277,696 violent crimes committed in 2020.
The estimated number of robberies fell nearly 10 percent, and the estimated rape offenses decreased 12 percent. However, the estimated number of aggravated assault offenses rose 12 percent.
There were an estimated 6,452,038 property crimes. Burglaries dropped 7.4 percent, larceny-thefts decreased 10.6 percent, while motor vehicle thefts rose nearly 12 percent.
COVID schmovid. The problem is liberals.
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Obama Takes Shot at Biden on Border
The nation was been keeping a keen eye on Joe Biden’s first 8 months in office, even though it has been hard to watch at times. The President has been largely negligent on the issue of border security, which is ludicrous knowing that every migrant eyeing the American border was bolstered by his election.
Things have gotten so bad, in fact, that a great majority of the punditry, (some who lean left, even), have suggested that the US border is essentially wide open at this moment.
Even Biden’s former boss, Barack Obama, is growing perturbed.
Former President Barack Obama said Tuesday that open border policies on the Southern border were “unsustainable” for the United States.
“We have borders,” Obama said in an interview with ABC News host Robin Roberts. “The idea that we can just have open borders is something that … as a practical matter, is unsustainable.”
The president acknowledged that President Joe Biden was still dealing with migrant emergencies on the Southern border, calling it a “painful reminder” that America had not fixed the broken immigration system.
The statement, while somewhat vague, belies the internal strife of the Democratic Party at this crucial juncture of the Biden administration, and has telegraphed what is perhaps a long road to recovery for the liberal left.
https://flagandcross.com/bromance-over-obama-takes-cheap-shot-at-biden-on-border/
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