It’s almost as if the police want us to despise them.
A police force has been slammed for its ‘utterly chilling, North Korean-style’ hate crime awareness campaign.
Merseyside Police were heavily criticised on social media after using the slogan, ‘Being offensive is an offence’ on a mobile billboard driven around the Wirral on Saturday.
The force tweeted images of their new slogan board alongside the Rainbow Flag to show their support for LGBTQ people.
Right. So we must be aware of offence, but not theft, rape, murder… Okay, so I exaggerate a bit, but this leaves me wondering just how far Plod can sink. Their role is to investigate crime, not police our language and not to kiss the arses of the alphabet soup activists.
And just look at the image in that article. This is not Peelian policing, this is not policing by consent, this is the Thought Police, like – as the headline suggests, something from a despotic communist dictatorship.
But the campaign immediately faced heavy criticism online over their wording, with many saying it is an attack on free speech because there is nothing illegal about merely ‘causing offence’.
They’re working on that.
Merseyside Police has since apologised and removed the post from Twitter.
As usually happens when the wokists overreach themselves and face a backlash. But someone, somewhere thought it was okay. Someone, somewhere signed off on it.
The full campaign on the advertisement van reads: ‘Lots of positive discussion was had with the essential shoppers and together we will defeat hate in our community.’
It is not your role to defeat hate in our community ( hate being anything the wokists dislike). Your role is to investigate crime. I suggest that you get on and do that instead of your political posturing.
The rot started when ‘senior’ ranks were recruited directly, rather than having to do their time as uniformed PCs. Those recruited appear to have undergone the wrong sort of ‘PC’ training and wouldn’t understand the impact of walking a beat
By ‘wrong sort of PC training’, I take it that you mean ‘Common Purpose graduate’.
Precisely. Whilst I find banning offensive, I’m prepared to suspend my beliefs regarding Common Purpose.
What do you mean, wokery gone mad? It’s mad, tout court.
Agreed.
Joke: Police used to drive panda cars. Now they drive pander cars.
Very good. But like most satire these days, Poe’s law kicks in.
I find the idea of the police meddling in politics with mobile billboards instead of doing their effing job offensive. So since they are being offensive, and this is an offence, they can arrest and prosecute themselves.