Anti Police Narrative Picks Up Speed As Police Repeatedly Vilified.

A difficult summer last year saw police officers come under fire for visiting pensioners at home and arresting them for what has been dubbed ‘hurty words’.

Much publicised and making front page headlines, the arrival of officers knocking on your door for comments made on social media has angered the community and added to the demise of a police reputation that is already in tatters. Understandably, if it were your grandparent taken away in cuffs for an innocent comment made, when rapists walk the streets or are let out early, you would rightly understand why there is much anger.

However, is the national media to blame alongside specifically shortened social media clips? Are all the facts rightly revealed for the public to see or is there a lot of anti police antics going on again here?

A recent tabloid heading caused much anger across the country at the arrival of two officers visiting a pensioner for comments they had made. In fact the story itself is somewhat different to what the sensationalist headline had portrayed. I was also disturbed by the headline that had us all thinking ‘here we go again’. The story itself actually turned out very differently to what had been portrayed by the tabloid. The pensioner was advised that a complaint had been made against her and that was the end of the very brief five minute visit. We can argue that perhaps sending two officers is somewhat over the top, but let us actually look at the reality of the visit and the fact that the pensioner was not carted off in cuffs and only advised off the complaint made against them.

The ongoing anti police narrative continues at full pace and rarely do mainstream media cover the outstanding work most officers do on a daily basis. Yesterday, the heroic story of the Met officer PC Younger was covered in the Havering Daily and a few other publications. This is a 23 year old officer who without fear or consequences for his own life, rushed in and tackled a man wielding a knife. Surely that warrants an article? His actions saved a life, his actions were brave. I guess for some, that means nothing.

The criminal justice system is also worth looking into, as officers do the initial arrests but their incarceration or lack of for others, remains controversial. It is not police officers who do the ‘banging up’.

The social media hurty words crime is a very contentious one when there are rapists and sexual offenders walking our streets. However, frontline officers are also the ones left to pick up the pieces and also the ones who face the abuse.

Ultimately these officers face some of the biggest challenges possible working to the best of their ability against an anti police narrative that puts them on a back foot every time they respond to a call.

Most across London and the country do an outstanding job as shown by PC Younger, and today another officer will put their life on the line to save ours.

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