The incident in Islington illustrates the asymmetric reporting of policing perfectly: on a scale of 1 to 100 the brief use of a restraint method which caused no actual harm (which appears unlikely to have been likely to do so), during a violent struggle with adrenaline flowing> >and with a dozen people shouting and screaming at the officers, gets covered at about 150 whilst the fact unarmed officers in an area with a sky high rate of knife crime bravely intercept a suspect armed with a knife and wanted for recall to prison for a violent offence barely>

This sort of simplistic, anti-police nonsense from @HackneyAbbott is why Labour don't get support from the police despite their manifesto commitment to bring back 10k officers and the great work of @LouHaigh and others... >
hackneygazette.co.uk/opinion/diane-… She refers back to the 80s. What happened under different legislation 35yrs ago tells us NOTHING about how S&S is done today.

She refers to police doing "random" S&S as if that is a fact. It ISN'T. It's a lie. There is no "random" S&S. The vast majority are conducted under>