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    Geschlagen, machtlos und zahlenmäßig unterlegen: Wie die Polizei wirklich über den Notting Hill Carnival denkt


    Geschlagen, machtlos und zahlenmäßig unterlegen: Wie die Polizei wirklich über den Notting Hill Carnival denkt

    https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/notting-hill-carnival-stabbings-met-police-officers-knxw0fkzt

    Von insomnimax_99

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    10 Comments

    1. limeflavoured on

      I’m sure this thread will be nice and sensible and not descend into dog whistles or outright racism…

    2. Reluctant_Dreamer on

      Notting Hill is just an excuse to push the social limits as hard as you can, whether that’s drinking, drugs, violence or even clothing.

      Residents fear it, participants of the carnival from when it first started hate what it has become.

      The sensible people start leaving at 12 and anyone left after 5 is risking everything.

      It’s not really a race thing, the carnival has just become a home for those who want to behave abhorrently.

      There’s not even a real carnival atmosphere. There’s a few people in dress but not many, the front page of metro doesn’t really paint what it actually looks like. The floats are just trucks with the sides cut out and sound systems blaring music that is different from the truck in front so it becomes indistinguishable from industrial drilling.

      For the police I can only imagine what they see, they don’t get any of the good parts of the carnival and only the negatives.

    3. leoedin on

      Remember this is the same police force that wanted to permanently close Brixton Academy. 

      They will always be against large events. It would be easier for them if they didn’t happen.

    4. GunstarGreen on

      I don’t know how you can pack that many people into such a small space and not expect bad things to happen. I’ve seen some videos of the crush at this event and I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near it.

    6. newnortherner21 on

      The idea of having a route that ends in Hyde Park would have addressed some of the crowding concerns, but done nothing about those who use the event as a cover for illegal activity.

    7. AcademicIncrease8080 on

      Maybe one Carnival the police who boycott it altogether, then we could see just how much gang violence and assault the police officers are preventing every single year

      Feel so sorry for the police, theirs is by far the most dangerous and traumatic of pretty much any normal job and yet the media treat them like absolute garbage and actively stir up anti-police hatred by only ever reporting negative stuff about them

    8. Competitive_Mix3627 on

      It’s mental that it’s still allowed to happen. Any other event that couldn’t be policed properly would be cancelled or contained. It’s a crime epidemic, a health and safety nightmare but the police and mayor’s office won’t do anything about, because it’ll look bad. Imagine glastonbury saying we are paying private security, we will leave it to the police. That would be cancelled immediately.

    9. Icy_Zucchini_1138 on

      It genuinely seems inevitable that sooner or later there will be a mass casuality situation similar to Hillsborough. The police will probably get the blame for that too and people will be incredulous this event was allowed to go on for so long in its current format.

    10. High-Tom-Titty on

      There’s also stories of pressure to keep the arrest numbers down, so they walk the suspect out of the area and then arrest them. I’ve heard this a few times, but never from the horses mouth.

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