Yesterday as part of this blog’s ‘Quote of the Day’ strand I publicised a forthcoming article from an ex police officer called Donna Louise. The article or at least the first part of it on the issue of Britain’s two tier policing and justice system has now been published on Donna Louise’s Substack,

It is a truly magnificent article and covers in great detail the police’s abandonment of impartiality and the reasons for it. The article condemns the defensive way that British police officers police their areas because they are constantly worried about an accusation, possibly unfounded, of ‘racism’. This piece also highlights how it has now become so unusual to experience Muslims, Jews and Christians to be policed equally and fairly that when this sort of equitable and non-biased policing does occasionally happen it is something that has become newsworthy in itself. Britons should not have to live like this and neither in my view should Britons be policed like this.

I often praise other writers on here as part of this blog’s ‘From Elsewhere’ and ‘Quote of the Day’ strands and in other articles. However it’s rare for me to describe the writing that I highlight as essential reading but Donna Louise’s article truly deserves that epithet. It is indeed essential reading for anyone who wants to understand just how badly and how inequitably Britons are policed and how we got to this terrible state of affairs.

Donna Louise covers much that is wrong with policing in Britain and her article includes criticism of the sort of defensive policing that saw Henry Nowak bleed to death on the street because the police took his attacker’s false claim of racism far more seriously than Mr Nowak’s mortal injury. It covers the imported madness of the George Floyd hysteria, the home grown Islamopandering by police officers, along with the recent Birmingham case where police arrested the individual who was attacked but not his attackers. Ms Donna Louise takes aim at the policy of the policing of Tweets instead of the streets, the disaster of the policy of scaling back stop and search which Ms Donna Louise has said has contributed to an increase in knife murders among Britain’s Black youth and the police’s role in the public humiliation of a young autistic boy who had accidentally scuffed a Koran and how they did this in conjunction with their local Islamic communities.

I’ll only put up a short section of this truly excellent and praiseworthy article as people need to go and read Ms Donna Louise’s words for herself on her Substack. Please share Ms Donna Louise’s words as they are important. Donna Louise’s words are important because they not only tell how policing has lost its way and how the police are losing experienced officers because they are fed up with how things in policing have turned out. We now have police forces where the sensible cops are leaving their forces leaving large areas of the country in the hands of inexperienced police officers who have been brainwashed into believing that ideology trumps all else overseen by senior officers whose primary cause is career advancement and making sure that any policing dirt doesn’t stick to them.

If anyone wants to know why there is a growing frustration with how Britons are policed and why even those such as myself who in the past worked closely with police, respected the police for the job they do and who even worked for police aligned publications and organisations are turning away from supporting police then Donna Louise’s article will go a long way to answer that question. Please read Donna Louise’s article and most definitely share it as widely as possible.

Here’s just one short section of Donna Louise’s article to give you a flavour of the rest of it.

“Policing runs on judgement, and judgement takes nerve. This is the story of how British policing lost it. That is my argument: that in importing what I would call critical race theory – the politics of privilege, white supremacy and racialised outcomes – we have swung the pendulum so far the other way that we now discriminate in the opposite direction.

Officers did not suddenly become bad people – I served with some of the finest people I have ever met, I know serving officers today who police exactly as I was trained to, and what I describe here is not what I see where I live. There are voices online so consumed with rage that they tell people to walk on by if they see an officer being assaulted. I will never subscribe to that.

Most officers joined for the same reason I did – to help, and to make a difference. But understand who is out there now: a third of all officers have less than five years’ service – a generation that has known nothing but the post-2020 training culture I will show you shortly – while the people trained to the old standard, people like me, have gone.”

Elsewhere in the article Donna Louise said:

“The clearest sign of the drift is what has happened around religion and free speech.

A police service that is serious about neutrality does not need to approve of what is being said. It only has to know that the answer to hostile reaction is not always to remove the speaker. But once officers begin treating offence as the main risk, the logic flips. The speaker becomes easier to move than the crowd, and moving the speaker becomes the path of least resistance.

That is how a free society starts to bend.

Look at Gideon Falter in London. Wearing a kippah, he was told by an officer that he was “quite openly Jewish,” that his presence could provoke a reaction, and that he risked arrest unless he accepted being escorted away. The Met apologised, then withdrew an earlier statement that blamed people like him, then apologised again. That is not neutral policing. It is the police shielding the march from the Jew because confronting the march felt riskier.

Look at Julian Foulkes in Kent. A retired special constable replied online to a pro-Palestinian activist and warned where antisemitism leads. Twenty-six views and nobody complained. Six officers turned up at his home, handcuffed him, and took him away, where they held him for eight hours. They noted his “very Brexity” books and leafed through the funeral clippings of his dead daughter. He accepted a caution he only took for fear of losing the right to visit his daughter in Australia. Kent later apologised, expunged it, and paid him £20,000.

Six officers for a pensioner’s tweet against antisemitism.”

I have read the entirety of Donna Louise’s article and I’m gobsmacked by both the quality of it as a written piece and how accurately she portrays the unfolding disaster that has been created in policing.

Please go and read Donna Louise’s article. It’s magnificent, essential reading that will tell you just how bad things have got and how we got to this position.

Here’s the direct link to Donna Louise’s article. This is part one and I suspect that part two will be just as excellent.

https://donnalouiseflowers.substack.com/p/two-tier-the-policing-of-fear?r=6sd61x&triedRedirect=true