Blame Fake Conservatives For Extinction Rebellion’s Law And Disorder

British criminal justice is pathetic. By default, British police are observers rather than enforcers, lest they become ‘victims’ of a complaint.

They are most reticent where ‘minorities’ are majorities locally, lest the complaints are racialized.

They are reticent also where protesters organize themselves with ‘legal observers’ and journalists. These factors came together when ‘Extinction Rebellion’ shut down thoroughfares and bridges in central London last week.

The police were forewarned but stood around in large groups socializing. They danced with protesters, shared skateboards, and expressed support.

The head of the Metropolitan Police, Cressida Dick, was reduced to urging protesters to move. And where does she want them to move? Not home, so protesters and authorities can negotiate a march.

No, she wants them to camp in the little park around Marble Arch, which they will befoul and destroy – more than the migrants who already camp there and are ignored by the law.

Cressida Dick exaggerates the challenge. On Saturday evening she said she had never seen such a scale of arrests in all her career, but ignored the riots of August 2011.

She said her force had made more than 750 arrests in six days, but thousands had broken the law, refused to comply until the last moment, then moved on a few yards, while only those who had chained or glued themselves to vehicles or other obstacles were inevitably arrested.

Only 28 were charged. On media, protesters boasted of being released after arrest and returning to the fray. New arrivals were keen to tell journalists that they were prepared to be arrested. That’s easy to say without consequences.

Who suffers most? Rule-followers who pay their taxes to fund apathetic public servants, who have jobs but can’t get to work, who have businesses but can’t receive customers.

The costs will linger beyond the immediate disruption. London again looks unsafe and unreliable.

Potential visitors, businesses, and investors were already discouraged by riots in 2011, an explosion of violent crime since 2017, perpetual protests against Brexit, the self-segregation of districts into ethnic and religious enclaves, over-crowding, decaying infrastructure, and the collapse of good manners, service and safety (starting at London Heathrow airport).

We should admit that the police are badly led by the Crown Prosecution Service, judges, and politicians.

Amazingly, our current explosion in crime has occurred under nearly nine years of Conservative government, except it’s really fake conservatism, as fashioned by David Cameron and Theresa May, who was Home Secretary before she succeeded him as premier in July 2016.

Police can rightly blame Conservative cuts – they employed fewer personnel in the fiscal year 2016-2017 than at any time in 30 years. Central government funding fell from the fiscal year 2011 to 2016 by about as much as it had soared from 1998 to 2010.

By July 2018, police officers were at their lowest count in 36 years. Fewer than 10 per cent of crimes led to an indictment. Homicides reached a ten-year peak. Knife crimes and acid attacks reached record highs.

May’s government turned the funding back on in autumn 2018, but not as much as needed, because fake conservatives still seek to outspend Labour on healthcare and welfare.

The fake conservatives have ruined law enforcement with policy, not just under-funding. For instance, May stopped stop-and-search in 2014, pandering to criticisms of apparent racism, even though the Home Office had shown that whites were likeliest to be stopped (controlling for local demographics and propensity to be on the streets). Her dishonesty wasn’t exposed until 2018.

May’s policy contributed to the resignation of her successor as Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, in April 2018, coincident with the reintroduction of stop-and-search.

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On top of that, we have rulebreaking by our lawmakers. Members of Parliament betray their commitments to implement the referendum, betray their manifestos, amend legislated Brexit dates as convenient, vote in Parliament while on parole, break precedent when Remainers want to motion policy and ram through pro-Remain statutes without due deliberation, while refusing to table pro-Brexit statutes.

From borders to streets to the legislature, Britain’s authorities are developing a society in which the law doesn’t matter – and that is no society at all.

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