If you want to know why the Left aims to dismantle and then “re-imagine” the police, look no further than Britain. For it is there, a report states, that law enforcement substitutes LGBT activist groups’ wishes for law and then acts as their enforcers.
The report, “Policing Through the Looking Glass,” by watchdog organization Fair Cop, found that police “are routinely flouting their oath ‘to serve without fear or favour’ by openly promoting political causes and misrepresenting the law,” relates the organization’s website.
“The product of 18 months’ analysis, the report details the extent of the police’s capture by Stonewall, Gendered Intelligence, Mermaids and other trans lobby groups,” Fair Cop continues. The result is persecution of those critical of these sexual devolutionaries’ agenda.
The report reveals, writes Fair Cop:
- How the police routinely misrepresent the Equality Act 2010, including their substitution of Stonewall’s unlawful definition of “transgender” for the actual protected characteristic of Gender Reassignment. [Note: The Democrats are now pushing an “Equality Act” here, as bad ideas metastasize quickly in a world shrunk by technology.]
- Police forces’ endorsement of political campaigns, including their support for highly-contested “trans rights” demands during the Government’s consultation on proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act.
- The unquestioning repetition of false statistics, including the claim that “one in 12 trans people have a chance of being murdered”, tweeted by the College of Policing. [In reality, a study found that “transgender” individuals in Britain are 71 percent more likely to commit murder than to be murdered, and are more apt to commit homicide than normal people are.]
- Forces’ close relationships with lobby groups, including annual subscriptions to Stonewall and their annual spending on rainbow flags, epaulettes and other political symbols.
As remedy, the “report recommends a number of changes to return to the ‘principles of political neutrality as defined by the College of Policing’s Code of Ethics,’” writes WND.com.
These include calls for police heads to sever ties with sexual devolutionary groups such as Stonewall; to embrace political neutrality; and to institute “Her Majesty’s Rule,” which dictates that police and their departments should keep their ideological positions private.
“‘The police used to enforce laws passed by Parliament, but we are now in the extraordinary situation where the police are following guidelines written by partisan lobby groups,’ said Harry Miller, co-author of the report,” Fair Cop also tells us. This constitutes a takeover of the police, he warned, with the rules formulated by radical, unelected groups.
“It is absurd that the police are paying for training from overtly political organisations that misrepresent the law, and then implementing a bootleg version of the law,” Miller also complained. “And it’s no surprise that so many people in recent years have suffered police harassment for saying things that don’t contravene any law.”
Providing more detail, WND writes:
Roger Kiska of the Christian Legal Center noted Stonewall … has boasted of the cooperation it has received from the Crown Prosecution Service, the Ministry of Justice and the College of Policing.
“In a section headed ‘what the law says,’ which a reasonable person would assume draws upon the legal expertise of the aforementioned public authorities, Stonewall in fact creates a wish list of what they believe the law should be instead of what it really is. It suggests, for example, that the term gender reassignment is outdated and not fit for purpose, and that service providers should really protect gender identity to be truly inclusive. The distinction is far more than semantics. Gender reassignment and gender identity are not synonymous, the former is legally protected whereas the latter is not,” he said.
“The result has been law enforcement getting erroneous and ultra vires [Latin for “beyond the powers”] training in gender ideology, giving them a wholly inaccurate perception of what is actually legal and what is not. Some police, as the report highlights, have been open in their belief that misgendering can be a form of abuse,” he continued.
As for the United States, if Democrats’ embrace of the Equality Act doesn’t convince you that what “happens overseas doesn’t stay overseas,” consider also that American law-enforcement agencies controlled by the Left exhibit the same degradation U.K. police do.
For example, the FBI has long partnered with the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center, a hate group masquerading as a “civil rights” organization. The FBI still does, too, according to left-wing Media Matters.
Given this bent, it’s unsurprising the FBI has been accused of monitoring conservatives, had launched an attempted coup against President Trump, and has pursued witch hunts against White House allies while ignoring actual crimes by liberals.
This degradation occurred because the Left gradually seized control of the federal bureaucracy, in particular under the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama administrations. Moreover, some big-city police departments — also controlled by the Left — have likewise been enforcing laws selectively and targeting conservatives.
This is, of course, why the Left wants to “dismantle the police,” whose rank and file and top brass are generally conservative outside urban areas. Kneecapping the cops results in social breakdown, leading to a yearning for restored order and security. Leftists can then come “riding to the rescue,” seize control of the police (which they hobbled in the first place), and remake them in their own image.
Then you will have restored order — but it will be a morally disordered order.
Speaking of morality, while Fair Cop’s efforts are laudable, it’s unlikely they’ll yield fruit. Western civilization has long been drifting Left — meaning, gravitating toward moral disorder — and an immutable rule of man is relevant here, one well related by President John Adams.
“Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private [virtue],” he wrote, “and public virtue is the only foundation of republics.”
You can’t be one type of person, but another type of lawyer, doctor, mechanic, or bureaucrat.
And you can’t be one type of person but another kind of police officer — or another type of politician who appoints the police chief.
You also can’t be one type of people, one experiencing moral decline, and have another type of government. As English poet William Cowper rhetorically asked, “When was public virtue to be found when private was not?” ’Tis a point to ponder.
