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Met Chief Calls Time on ‘Woke’ Policing

by Toby Young
29 August 2023 1:00 PM

Sir Mark Rowley, the new Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, has told his officers to stop associating themselves with political causes, such as Black Lives Matter, Extinction Rebellion and Pride. The Telegraph has more.

Britain’s most senior policeman has said his officers will not be allowed to express support for “woke” causes while on duty because it is essential that they are impartial.

Sir Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, made it clear that he will not tolerate officers taking the knee, flying rainbow flags or adorning their uniforms with badges that support environmental causes.

He described himself as “fairly narrow-minded” on the issue and said the only acceptable additions to uniforms were remembrance poppies, Help for Heroes wristbands and the police memorial badge.

His comments signal that he will take a much harder line than his predecessor, Dame Cressida Dick, who was criticised for allowing officers to take the knee while policing Black Lives Matter protests and under whose watch officers danced and skateboarded with Extinction Rebellion activists.

Sir Mark said getting drawn into political causes – even popular ones – could be “fatal” for policing, telling the Telegraph: “Wearing a poppy in the autumn is perfectly proper, but there is not a lot that we should align to because the danger is that once you say, ‘we are going to align ourselves to a cause because 90 per cent of the population support it’, what about the 10 per cent?

“Once you start having environmental and other subjects there are lots of people in the organisation who will personally support those causes and that is OK, but the Metropolitan Police explicitly supporting them is quite tricky. I’m fairly narrow-minded on this. There are very few causes policing should be attached to.”

Sir Mark’s comments signal that he will be less tolerant than Dame Cressida, under whom Scotland Yard initially said it was at individual officers’ discretion if they wanted to take the knee to support Black Lives Matter, even while they were policing protests. Dame Cressida later said she would not take the knee and that she had ordered her officers not to do so.

Under her watch, a police vehicle was given a Pride rainbow colour scheme to show support for LGBTQ+ causes at taxpayers’ expense.

In 2019, there was public outrage after Met officers were seen dancing and skateboarding with Extinction Rebellion eco-warriors when they were meant to be policing an illegal protest. The officers’ commander later described the behaviour as “unacceptable”.

Worth reading in full.

Stop Press: In a leading article, the Telegraph says if the police want to restore public confidence they should stop investigating incidents the vast majority of the British public don’t believe should be criminal acts – and aren’t in fact criminal acts – such as ‘offensive’ tweets.

Tags: Dame Cressida DickExtinction RebellionMetropolitan PolicePrideSir Mark RowleyTaking The Knee

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crisisgarden
crisisgarden
3 years ago

Climate change?

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Cristi.Neagu
Cristi.Neagu
3 years ago

And what were the rest caused by? “Protect the NHS”?

Last edited 3 years ago by Cristi.Neagu
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Julian
Julian
3 years ago

“In previous waves, almost all excess deaths could broadly be explained by Covid.”

Really? Some, probably. But almost all? Shutting down the NHS, throwing the old and frail out of hospital, isolating people…

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PoshPanic
PoshPanic
3 years ago
Reply to  Julian

I think they mean they can be explained by Covid magically curing dementia and cancer deaths. They were doing it last year and the same think seems to be happening, periodically now…some weeks when Covid deaths are up, some of the usual suspects are down.

Last edited 3 years ago by PoshPanic
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Julian
Julian
3 years ago
Reply to  PoshPanic

Ah yes of course, how silly of me. Lots of things that used to kill people seem to have become much less dangerous because of covid.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  PoshPanic

…and the magical disappearance of flu …

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HelzBelz
HelzBelz
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

No, no no – lockdowns caused the disappearance of the flu which proves that lockdowns work…

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twinkytwonk
twinkytwonk
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

That was amazing but it’s because we weren’t circulating apparently? Does this mean covid can travel from an infected person, out of their letterbox and into next door via the same route? It’s a bloody clever virus

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
3 years ago
Reply to  twinkytwonk

Damn right, it also knows the difference between shops and pubs

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Banjones
Banjones
3 years ago
Reply to  DevonBlueBoy

And it knows it should stay away from supermarket employees.

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MizakeTheMizan
MizakeTheMizan
3 years ago
Reply to  Julian

“All deaths within 28 days of receiving a positive test”

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Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
3 years ago
Reply to  MizakeTheMizan

For whatever reason :97 years old, 32 stone, Suicide, etc.
Feel free to add any other type of death.

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  Julian

And Midazolam.

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pre-Boomer Marine brat
pre-Boomer Marine brat
3 years ago

“could broadly be explained”

If Guy Fawkes were alive today, this column might argue, his target should be the government’s health science establishment.

I’d strongly suggest, Fleet Street instead.

When I was growing up, the Fourth Estate openly prided itself as the guardian of society, the monitor of the government. The Fourth Estate had as its duty, factually informing the public and – as needed – sounding the call to arms.

Today (partly because of the rise of the Web, and then social media) the Fourth Estate has largely turned tabloid in a desperate rush to maintain revenues.

It’s pursuing the eternal truth expressed by America’s H. L. Mencken: “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

Without the Fourth Estate, the health science establishment would be a housewife yelling across her back yard fence.

(And so would Boris and Donald be ….)

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago

More pointless duff data.

Carry on regardless.

Last edited 3 years ago by RickH
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Steve-Devon
Steve-Devon
3 years ago

I find this a puzzling article, only a few days ago they published an item discussing how age adjusted mortality was at normal levels;
https://dailysceptic.org/2021/11/29/octobers-age-standardised-mortality-rate-was-equal-to-the-five-year-average/
I would have thought this article today would have taken the previous item into account to give a balanced consideration with regard to UK deaths. Is there cause for concern in any way? Of particular concern is deaths in the under 40s and do they give any indication of possible vaccine effects.

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amanuensis
amanuensis
3 years ago
Reply to  Steve-Devon

The problem there is ‘age standardised mortality’. It is a concept that tends to be misunderstood and is often used inappropriately.

It certainly does nothing to highlight additional deaths in younger age groups — it, like the raw death rate, will mainly be sensitive to changes in the death rates in the elderly and will be unlikely to show any shift at all with even substantial changes in the death rate in the young.

Specifically wrt covid, it is idiocy to use age-standardised mortality to describe deaths during a pandemic which has a very strong age dependency for deaths.

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Liberty
Liberty
3 years ago

My father died of a heart attack at home on 21st November, he is one of the non Covid unexpected deaths at home . He had had his booster vaccine the day before, he’d then immediately felt unwell, the following morning he had chest pain, he died that evening. We will never know whether his heart attack was caused by the vaccine, but I strongly suspect it was the straw that broke the camel’s back. What I do know is that I had only seen my dad for 4 hours since March 2020, because he was scared of catching Covid. His last 20 months were lived in fear, away from his family. People must wake up and realise that Covid is not worth giving up our lives for. Life is for living, not just avoiding dying. We are not merely cells to keep apart, in order to avert death, we are social creatures who need human touch and love to thrive. I hope that in saying all this, one person might go and see their family, one person might stop being so afraid of Covid that they hide away from life. If my comment helps anyone, then Dad’s death will not have been wasted. Please live your life today, because nobody knows what tomorrow will bring.

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Julian
Julian
3 years ago
Reply to  Liberty

Sorry to hear about your Dad. Beautifully put. The state of fear that these lies have created in the old (and the young) will last for years and will not be easily undone, and this is one of the most egregious of the many evils perpetrated in the name of “saving lives”. To use “saving lives” as an excuse for political and financial self-aggrandisement, and to knowingly destroy lives in the process, is simply wicked.

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Ritchie2
Ritchie2
3 years ago
Reply to  Liberty

So sorry to read about your Dad. I will wager that there are many people who have been led to a similar and horrible situation. Hiding from a entirely survivable disease and being given experimental vaccines that likely cause significantly more harm than good. Scared witless by government and pseudo medical propaganda.

One day there will be a reckoning, people are awakening to the truth and every day I hear more and more of my friends and family express disgust at the actions of the government. The slow drips of truth are forming in puddles, soon there will be streams and rivers which will begin to wash away this madness, our time is coming.

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smithey
smithey
3 years ago

help! I’m not in a good place at the moment. Fallen out with my mother who I love dearly over my refusal to have the Covid jab. I have put forward all the reasons for me not having it but she cannot see my point of view at all. She basically thinks that by not having it I am dicing with death and not only that want to kill her too. Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated – I really do despair.

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SweetBabyCheeses
SweetBabyCheeses
3 years ago
Reply to  smithey

Depends on how old she is and how much you value the relationship…you could just lie to her and say you’ve had it? It’s not like she will ever suspect the truth because all the jaboids seem to catch awful wu flu anyway. You’re not putting her in any additional “danger” so morally it’s only a white lie.

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caipirinha17
caipirinha17
3 years ago
Reply to  smithey

I get the same from my mother and sister, both work in the national covvie service so are regularly dosed with extreme propaganda. I haven’t yet found a way to break through I’m afraid, I guess it’s going to take something bigger. I just refuse to talk to them about it – divert all conversations to topics that are much more pleasant and entirely unrelated, ideally that emphasise how much better life used to be. There you go, nudge theory being used for good instead of evil.

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Roger A
Roger A
3 years ago

In the first wave, covid and excess deaths were closely aligned at 51.6K to 50K
Whereas in the second wave covid deaths exceeded excess deaths by 23.4K (151.5K vs 128.1K) so even tho’ the NHS was closed to everyone except covid cases we are asked to believe that there were 23.4K fewer deaths from CVD & cancer etc.

Last edited 3 years ago by Roger A
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tom171uk
tom171uk
3 years ago

And the ones that are linked to covid are exaggerated because of the bizarre policy of counting a death from any cause that occurs within 28 days of a positive test result as being due to covid.

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LonePatriot
LonePatriot
3 years ago

There Are Now 365 Studies that Prove the Efficacy of Ivermectin and HCQ in Treating COVID-19. Any hospital administrator who mandated the shots to employees to comply with the government mandate for Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement and who refused to allow alternative treatments to be tried, doctors who pushed their patients to take the EUA drug without giving fully informed consent, anyone who forcefully administered the shot, the AMA, AAP, Boards of Health, CDC, FDA, NIH, WHO, scientists who participated in the development, Big Pharma (Pfizer, Moderna, J&J, Astra Zeneca, et.al.), anyone who pushed the sick into nursing homes resulting in deaths, all must be arrested, prosecuted, tried and if found guilty sentenced to prolonged imprisonment and fines or death for intentional homicide. Get your ivermectin before it is too late! https://ivmpharmacy.com

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marebobowl
marebobowl
3 years ago

Yes many linked to the vaccine. You know things like heart attacks, strokes, pulmonary embolisms. Little things like that. Any autopsies done on the victims? Any history taking? History of Covid vaxx?

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Banjones
Banjones
3 years ago

So how come, then, that the FOI requests to local authorities showed that across the country there were few ”excess” burials or cremations?

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