I've been thinking quite a bit recently about two things relating to this:
(1) Would it help if British policing explicitly acknowledged it's role in *creating* the unequal society it now polices, due to overt individual and institutionally racist practices in the past?
(1) Would it help if British policing explicitly acknowledged it's role in *creating* the unequal society it now polices, due to overt individual and institutionally racist practices in the past?
https://twitter.com/gmhales/status/1470087337849860103
(2) I feel like policing has had relatively little to say about doing policing *with not to* Black communities - which in many cases are more vulnerable/victimised. In the Met, the model of specialist units being sent in to do stop and search is arguably an example of doing to.
I've made the point repeatedly before that there may be clues about how to better police with communities (in London) from the early days of Operation Trident - which the likes of Cressida Dick and Neil Basu should know well, having been involved.
Trident was, after all, created partly at the behest of Black communities - but it also had a strong and vocal Independent Advisory Group. That distinct presence and voice was lost once Trident was reorganised.
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