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BBC1 The Met - Policing London - 08/06/15 2100
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Hi folks,
New series. Documentary following members of Britain's biggest and busiest police force as they deal with life, death and crime and its victims across London. The inquiry into the shooting of Mark Duggan by a firearms officer, which sparked the riots of August 2011, is about to announce whether the killing was lawful or unlawful. The impending verdict is creating anxiety in Scotland Yard and tension on the streets of Tottenham - the home of the Duggan family - and the Met is busy planning for a verdict it fears may spark fresh unrest
Covering the London riots now..
Who's watching?
New series. Documentary following members of Britain's biggest and busiest police force as they deal with life, death and crime and its victims across London. The inquiry into the shooting of Mark Duggan by a firearms officer, which sparked the riots of August 2011, is about to announce whether the killing was lawful or unlawful. The impending verdict is creating anxiety in Scotland Yard and tension on the streets of Tottenham - the home of the Duggan family - and the Met is busy planning for a verdict it fears may spark fresh unrest
Covering the London riots now..
Who's watching?
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Recording BBC4 so I can enjoy Vicky CM later. ;-)
Good to see a more serious documentary about the police rather than the usual "cops with cars" type programme.
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I bet half the people getting involved with all these riots and shouting matches don't even know what they are shouting and rioting about!
A good programme though.
What's all this stuff about being shot for holding an umbrella? The guy had a gun, he was armed. He may not have had it in his hand the very split second the bullet hit him, but this idea he was "executed" is ridiculous.
And even if he was executed, what that has to do with smashing into a Currys store to grab a new HD TV I'll never understand.
The way these people were going on you'd think we were in States with police killings every day: There's been a grand total of... ONE in London since Duggan in 2011. And that guy was holding an ex-girlfriend hostage with a knife so a fairly clear cut incident.
Although I'm still slightly surprised some people "in the community" didn't use it as excuse to upgrade their now four-year-old TV.
This! All of this. I'll just add two more things. During the riots I was living in Brixton and could see a good part of it from my window. If you think it was only thugs looting (yes, looting is the correct term, not rioting) the shops you're wrong, there were women of all ages and also children, obviously and sadly taken by the parents to loot too. People came and parked their cars nearby and were going in and out of shops helping themselves to everything they could put their hands on. How this helps a dead man's cause I have no idea (it obviously doesn't)
The other thing is, I know a good policeman who feels incredibly frustrated and prevented from doing his job properly because before he can even think of taking action some people have already played the race card. He feels like he is gagged and has his hands tied behind his back which is very sad because he's a good police officer. Right now he's taken a sabbatical to travel and think things through because he doesn't feel like he can be a policeman any more. Sad times.
Of course they didn't, it was an excuse to loot and cause violence and burn down peoples homes and businesses who had no connection with any of it. And the family and community leaders stood by and allowed lies to be spread about how the man died . I found it very telling when the Borough Commander went across the street and was being abused to try and provoke a reaction , one guy was abusing him and his girlfriend pulled him away saying "not on camera" , why ? if they believed in what they were saying that would not matter, unless of course they wanted to provoke a response and then be able to say "we didn't do anything to deserve being arrested"
One gun toting, drug dealing scumbag who was on his way to to shoot someone by all accounts gets shot whilst in possession of a firearm and the community are up in arms and the Police are murderers.
So black on black murder is ok? No riots, let's not mention that.
Police shoot armed scrote, let's riot!
This will sadly get worse.
Unfortunately the Scottish police have been merged and are said to have a core of ex-Met police at the top, these have all the attitudes that the Met had years ago. So we have seen an attempt to armed police on regular patrols, a promise to stop these but they have just continued. Much higher numbers of Stop & Search than anywhere else in the country (including young children) - they were ordered to produce some statistics so the records were 'accidentally' deleted.
It's completely crazy that a policeman could say those two things in the same breath.... ''it's a reasonably low level crime event. Last year there were only 30 reported offences. Sadly two of them were attempted murders.''
Depends on how many 'incidents' there had been in previous years, if there had been a hundred then it is an improvement. Though with a vague term like 'incident' it can be defined to get any figure desired and the police have long been experts at manipulating crime figures.
The advantage of recording it is that I could linger over the VCM parts and fast forward through Will Self, AA Gill and the other pretentious "tossers".
How is that carnival still allowed in those fancy areas?
Because it is supposedly 'multicultural'?
How long would it survive if the people involved had to pay for the policing and not the taxpayers?