Mayor’s Police and Crime Plan consultation

It's critical to restoring public confidence and trust to get more detail about HOW, WHERE, WHEN and with WHOM Community Involvement, Integration and Communication will be done. I see only lip-service and no enough real change in this direction.
 

Equality is important.  The farmer demonstrations were policed far more softly than XR or Just Stop Oil.  The police always seems to sympathise with right wing views more than the left.  There remains a high degree of racism in the police - whether conscious or unconscious.  The noise from the right about two tier policing is ridiculous and totally at odds withh the reality.  More focus on equity for women too.

People say the police have given up and with the lack of support, especially form the mayor and goverment how can any blame them for doing so. 

Most people’s interaction with them comes at a time of high stress and difficult circumstances and they are there to gather evidence, investigate and keep people safe, this means a lot of the time the response is going to upset someone because they aren’t getting what they want or are the subject of the investigation. 

The MPS needs full support for the mayor and government to stop pandering to minority fringe groups, treated everyone fairly, follow the evidence without fear or favour and protect the public. 

Yes there are bad apples in the mps like there are ever yew here, but the majority of officers who deal with the violence, disorder and situations no one wants to be in on a daily basis are trying to do their job as best they can, sometimes getting hate and barriers from the very people who are wanting them to protect them. 

We need to stop thinking people breaking the law have more rights than those who abide by it and stop thinking the mps is automatically in the wrong till proven otherwise, and even then they are still vilified for doing what was required.  Support them and back them and the service will improve as will the safety, but while we think of them as the enemy this will never change

why do we waste our time  asking for their help.

the police gave up long ago 

the victims are treated like criminals just for reporting crimes

If you want to restore trust in policing you can start from treating everyone the same. We believe in equality under the law, equal citizenship and freedom of expression. There is clear two tier policing in London we have been seeing it more openly since last year, this is a choice by met police. 

The Chris Kaba case illustrated the very difficult demands faced by the Met. In a crisis situation, decisions have to be made in very little time. Let's remember that the number of people killed by police in this country is in single figures per year; in the US, admittedly with 5 times the population, it's more like 1000. Mistakes happen, but they are very rare, and criticism of the police when they do should bear that context in mind. They are the people who are always at risk. Those who end up getting shot have usually put themselves at risk in some way.
A tougher line by police on a range of crimes might well mitigate the sense of fear felt by many women. 

A small comment. Out of all the london.gov surveys I've been involved in over the years, this one was the least neutral and most "leading" of them all.

Poor choices of questions, obviously biased sorting of options, and question types chosen to be more likely to have the outcome the designer of the survey wanted. In a word, terrible.

An experienced user researcher would have a field day with this and could probably use this as a great example of how not to design a neutral questionnaire.