BlackMan Time

London’s Metropolitan police force would love you to think nice, positive things about it, their officers and everything they do to serve and protect your interest.

But, if I am being realistic about it, they would rather beat me up, murder me, frame me for a crime I didn’t commit or make my life as miserable as possible.

This is what they apparently do, being an organisation that systematically single out Black people for special attention!

These sentiments are not entirely my own: they come as a result of the findings of a number of police watchdog groups and from London Met Police police themselves!

Special Force!

One of the groups critical of the police force is The Race and Faith Inquiry which opened earlier this week to examine why black and ethnic minority officers are more likely to leave the force and are less successful in gaining promotion than their white counterparts.

Another organisation, the Runnymede Trust, concludes that Black and Asian people still suffered discrimination in the police service and at the hands of the police. In fact Black people were six times more likely to be stopped and searched by Met Police than white people.

The thing which disgust yet amuses me is how the Met. Police really believe they can get respect from anyone when they act with such disrespect towards some of the more vulnerable people within society.

If they want to receive big respect they got to sew the seeds of impartiality and fairness evenly all over the cornfield and not just in the areas they favour the most.