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CANDIDATES REJECTED

You’d think British police—currently battling a murder epidemic—would sign on as many new members as they could. Apparently not:

A police force that rejected 108 potential recruits because they were white men has admitted positive discrimination and agreed to pay compensation.

Gloucestershire Constabulary said that it had been trying to increase diversity with its policy of selecting women and candidates from ethnic minorities.

Via Rodolfo. Also from the UK:

Police have agreed to consult a panel of Muslim leaders before mounting counter-terrorist raids or arrests. Members of the panel will offer their assessment of whether information police have on a suspect is too flimsy and will also consider the consequences on community relations of a raid.

I wonder how useful that panel would have been in this case:

A driver spent two nights in jail after being accused of “revving his car in a racist manner”.

Posted by Tim B. on 09/24/2006 at 10:18 AM
  1. o/t From Auntie site “Swiss vote to raise barriers to asylum seekers”..yeah that was two thirds of the Swiss in referendums.Early exit polls.If put in place they will be some of the toughest levels in the Western world…

    Posted by crash on 2006 09 24 at 10:29 AM • permalink

  2. Britannia rules no more.

    Posted by surfmaster on 2006 09 24 at 10:32 AM • permalink

  3. Only in Britain..
    An off duty Chief Inspector from Wales,charges a “racist” car driver in Scotland for revving at a Libyan Scottish University student via his Italian vehicle-and he is charged by a Sheriff Cubie.
    It only remains for us to be told what a fiscal is?
    Incidentally,ABC’s “TENS of thousands anti war marchers in U.K.” revised by next day to thirty thousand,revised by commercial channel now to twenty thousand…and led by the good Cherry Blair’s sister…

    Posted by crash on 2006 09 24 at 10:41 AM • permalink

  4. Btw Tim you know Aussie Pleece “services” are desperate for staff -they’re so desperate they’ll probably even take white men…..

    Posted by crash on 2006 09 24 at 10:44 AM • permalink

  5. Yep, they’ve surrendered alright:

    The council cemetery where Christians are given Muslim graves
    A new cemetery is to have all its graves aligned with Mecca - making it the first council graveyard in the country to bury the dead in Islamic tradition, regardless of their religion.
    ...
    But the move has upset the Church and led to complaints that the policy discriminates against the city’s majority Christian population. The traditional direction of burial for Christians is facing east.


    Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 09 24 at 10:44 AM • permalink

  6. I can see the headlines now:

    “British Muslims Protest Over Tomorrow’s Police Raids - Whitey Commissioner Ian Blair Baffled By Leaked Plans.”

    Posted by C.L. on 2006 09 24 at 10:45 AM • permalink

  7. Police have agreed to consult a panel of Muslim leaders before mounting counter-terrorist raids or arrests. Members of the panel will offer their assessment of whether information police have on a suspect is too flimsy and will also consider the consequences on community relations of a raid.

    Translation: We will coordinate our defense with representatives of our enemy to ensure our enemy does not suffer harm or discomfort from our defensive efforts against this enemy.

    Translation: We are idiots. We are morons. We are cowards. We are unfit to survive. We fail the darwinian test in every catagory.

    Any attempt to coordinate or share intel with the UK should now be considered an act of treason since they publicly proclaim their intention of sharing any intel with the enemy.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 09 24 at 10:52 AM • permalink

  8. I thought exactly the same thing as C.L. and Grimmy: the police will never again capture any terrorists of note.  The concept of “need to know”—if it is to work properly—does not include political or religious reasons.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 09 24 at 11:01 AM • permalink

  9. Britain has allowed itself to become the preferred staging area for future attacks.

    Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 09 24 at 11:05 AM • permalink

  10. I really think the consulting on terror raids thing is a ruse.  That’s how you would go about smoking out a mole.

    Posted by Donnah on 2006 09 24 at 11:06 AM • permalink

  11. #10, Donnah:
    Would that you were right, but there’s the whole pattern of behavior to consider.

    Equivocation is the frist step along the road to capitulation and the UK has been quivering with equivocation since the beginng.

    Less anyone mistake me for a hypocrite, I do acknowledge that we in the US aint a whole hella lot better at standing up either.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 09 24 at 11:14 AM • permalink

  12. Members will be security vetted and will have to promise not to reveal any intelligence they are shown.

    What if they have their fingers crossed behind their backs?  Blows the whole deal, IMO.  Can’t be too careful, blokes.

    So much for England as “this earth of majesty and seat of Mars.”

    Posted by Patricia on 2006 09 24 at 11:30 AM • permalink

  13. will also consider the consequences on community relations of a raid.

    Holy Mohammed Batman! So if pre-emptively stopping mass-murdering terrorists would offend the muslim population, the cops will just sit back and do nothing, instead. That’s comforting.

    Fortuntately, Muslims are famously thick-skinned and slow to take offense.

    Posted by Shaky Barnes on 2006 09 24 at 11:37 AM • permalink

  14. will also consider the consequences on community relations of a raid.

    Oddly enough the police seem rather blase about relations with the white male community, or at least Gloucestershire Police do. It astounds me that having been found out explicitly discriminating against candidates on racial ground the perpetrators don’t get prosecuted, sacked or even disciplined.

    Posted by Ross on 2006 09 24 at 12:10 PM • permalink

  15. Hana Saad, 23, said he had degraded them

    I always feel so degraded when someone revs a Lotus at me. I only have a Honda. The shame. The shame.

    Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2006 09 24 at 12:27 PM • permalink

  16. Oddly enough the police seem rather blase about relations with the white male community, or at least Gloucestershire Police do. It astounds me that having been found out explicitly discriminating against candidates on racial ground the perpetrators don’t get prosecuted, sacked or even disciplined.

    Oddly, a key element of multiculturalism is the belief that white males are able to take care of themselves, while everyone else needs help to even get a start.

    Why, no, they don’t realize that’s a racist position.

    Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 09 24 at 12:54 PM • permalink

  17. Oddly, a key element of multiculturalism is the belief that white males are able to take care of themselves, while everyone else needs help to even get a start.

    Actually, a cornerstone to the multiculti mindset is that white males should be punished for all the grievances of mankind, real or imagined.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2006 09 24 at 01:50 PM • permalink

  18. Sounds to me like the UK ought to just go ahead and hoist the green flag with the half moon on it. This is the kind of lame policy that earns absolutely nothing but contempt from one’s enemies - or do the British think they don’t have enemies anymore?

    Posted by paco on 2006 09 24 at 02:05 PM • permalink

  19. I imagine the morale among UK police is so low now, it’s a wonder they have any police at all.  How long before their Muslim overlords institute a new “religious police” division, set up for the purpose of beating women on the street?

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2006 09 24 at 02:18 PM • permalink

  20. This is just a subjective impression on my part, but does anyone know what the current rate of EMIgration from the UK is?  Just based on folks I know, I get the sense it’s rising…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 09 24 at 05:24 PM • permalink

  21. I didn’t know “Police Academy” was a documentary.

    Posted by Dminor on 2006 09 24 at 06:00 PM • permalink

  22. Fortunately continental Europe is slightly ahead of England in the Death Spiral.  America and Australia are much farther behind.

    Perhaps England will learn something from the death of Europe…in time to save itself.  Unlike France, England sometimes reacts to recognized threats in time.  We’ll see.

    Europe is the canary in the mineshaft.  We watch them die and try not to make the same mistakes.

    Posted by trainer on 2006 09 24 at 07:10 PM • permalink

  23. White men can’t jihad.

    Posted by Henry boy on 2006 09 25 at 02:23 AM • permalink

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