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jeremy f's avatar

There's a viral video of police at a pro-palestine protest telling a man he looks "openly jewish". Do you think there's an understanding within the police force that there's a widespread antisemitism problem that they just cant cope with? Does that differ from the understanding of political leadership?

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Tired Moderate's avatar

Do you think there is a deliberate attempt to nudge normal people out of policing and replace them with ideologues?

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Marko Arčabić's avatar

What would Jay do to return the Police, into a force, instead of a service.

Can it be even done? Or do we need to side step and start anew?

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TheBlues's avatar

It seems that the root-cause of bad policing today it to be found at the heart of the College of Policing and its 'abolition' the only cure. How would you go about abolishing it, and what might we replace it with?

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Mary P Byrne-Halaszi's avatar

What do you think are the causes of this crisis in policing. Is it a culmination of years of policy and training changes? Have the changes all been politically motivated and by whom

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Rebecca's avatar

Is one of the reasons Britain seen as a soft touch because we do not regularly arm our police? Something that happens in many other countries

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ZY's avatar

Do the low salaries have anything to do with the number and quality of people wanting to go into policing?

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Graham Ward's avatar

Should the College of Policing be abolished , and depending on your answer (yes/no), why?

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Daniel Flöijer's avatar

Enforcing the law has always been difficult. How do you think policing is different in today’s society compared to previous times like 1980, 1950 or 1800?

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Geary Johansen's avatar

1) If you to weight the problem between senior police officers, and young ideologues freshly indoctrinated by universities, what would the percentages be?

2) How long before the last of the highly experienced supervisory class of officer, committed to the deeply admirable policing philosophy of Robert Peel, retire out of the service? Is it already too late?

3) Do you think many would be open to returning to policing in an advisory, training and oversight capacity, as a means of restoring the legacy of their life's work?

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Sam Cowles's avatar

How likely do you think large scale, civil unrest, or even civil war are, given the divisions clearly growing between Muslims, radical sympathisers/idealogical extremists, and...well, everyone else? How do you think current policing would cope with this? Marshall law?

How do you think this horrifying situation be avoided?

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Stephen Davids's avatar

In Britain, how many police officers are needed to restrain a knife-wielding youth or homeless person, an ex-hockey player on drugs, or a disoriented would-be immigrant wielding a stapler ? What tools to they use ? In Canada, it's 4 to 10 officers, and they kill the guy.

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Frédérique's avatar

Do you think that if more police joined The Free Speech Union there’d be strength in numbers to defy what you’re being told to do in order to publicly declare what the police would rather be doing? Is it time to introduce standards of fitness & martial arts training because it’s demoralising to watch the police not just running away from Muslim gangs but being mocked by them for running away. How can you defend British citizens if you’re afraid to police them?

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