Fixing the police

I’ve been following the fallout of the Nowak debacle on X. I think it’s fair to say that the police are wholly dysfunctional is the majority opinion. Most of the right has settled on DEI as the main culprit. Nobody really wants to think any deeper than that.

As I’ve outlined in previous posts, I think the problems go back further - to long before DEI even existed as a concept. It’s as much to do with the changing relationship between the public and the police, as police forces have retreated to centralised police fortresses. The Tories closed down hundred of local police stations, reducing policemen to glorified taxi drivers and booking clerks.

When you concentrated your organisation into one large building, you create the perfect environment for HR fads and political dogmas to thrive - especially in the public sector - and it’s a big part of why the NHS and civil service as a whole is dysfunctional.

Turning this around is no small undertaking. It’s going to require much better leadership and better intellectual direction - which is in short supply, especially when the universities are indoctrination camps and ground zero for most of the worst ideas in circulation. A lot of our systemic problems are not going to be solved in a hurry. If you want to fix the police or the civil service, the first priority for any government is to take a wrecking ball to higher education.

Meanwhile, the police have been subordinated to the race relations industry. The racial grievance industrial complex must be shut down. We must defund the NGOs, scrap any notion of "community leader", and shut down sociology & politics departments in universities. They are mainly storage warehouses for overqualified and under-skilled middle class leftists.

Some of the Peter Hitchens ilk suggest we need “back-to-basics” policing - stripping police uniforms back to the traditional blazer and truncheon but I don’t think that’s the solution. Police could at one time depend on the authority their uniform conveyed, but that was in a time when Britain was largely a homogenous high trust society. The urban multi-cultural environment in which migrant cohorts have scant regard to British law, means that police necessarily have to be equipped for all eventualities. Policemen have a basic expectation of making it through their shift alive.

Cutting to the chase, though, the biggest problem with the police is that they are too are too thinly stretched, with too broad a remit - having to perform as detective, peacekeeper, social worker and paramedics. For that you need sharp, fit and capable people - and to recruit those kinds of people you need rigorous selection and to make it a prestigious role worth competing for. Than means substantially better pay. But, of course, we know how that goes. We need to spend more on just about everything, and the police are just one among many competing priorities.

The police, though, are just one pillar of law and order. In order to take the police seriously we have to be able to take the system seriously - which is less likely when the courts are badly degraded and the prison service is in a state of perpetual emergency. As such, pledging to put more bobbies on the beat only goes so far. We must rebuild the magistrates courts closed down by the Tories, build more prisons and get the private sector out of prisons.

If you ask me, though, the whole issue once again comes down to immigration. You cannot expect to maintain order in a fragmented multicultural society. Asking the police to tread lightly around cultural sensitivities is setting them up to fail.

The erosion of the police as a functioning entity goes back to the 1980s. They were tasked with policing foreign communities they had no knowledge of, and didn’t understand, that necessarily required the development of “community networks” and “community leaders” as a public interface - and it metastasised from there.

Police and local authorities could not impose “British values” on third world rural peasantry, so compromises had to be made just to keep order - and they’ve been plate-spinning ever since. What you then get is disparate groups lobbying for their own concessions, while police commanders attempt to ensure it’s evenly policed according to the principles of neutrality. It could never withstand the weight of all the contradictions, and now it’s all breaking down.

The bottom line is that multiculturalism doesn’t work, and was never going to work. The only way out of this is to ensure that the rule of law applies to everyone equally, and come down hard on anyone who can’t live with that - regardless of their cultural sensibilities. There’s only one reason politicians haven’t already conceded the obvious - and it’s pure moral cowardice - putting their heads in the sand and hoping it would all come right.

Consequently, without political leadership and moral support, the police have been hung out to dry - constantly berated and slandered for doing an impossible job. It was only a matter of time before they completely lost the trust of the public.

The riots we saw this week are the culmination of all this. Public trust has been abused and squandered - and we now see the beginnings of white sectarianism. From there, there is no recovery - and any hope of rebuilding a functioning civic identity is dead. We are then on a countdown to civil war.

There’s only one guaranteed way to restore the kind of order that makes for the harmonious society we used to know, and that’s to start the mass removal of people who should never have been allowed here in the first place. For as long as we’re still pretending that multiculturalism can work, the problems are only going to spiral further out of control.