Well, just stop oil then :)
I want to say this makes me happy but who am I kidding, the Met’s obviously saying this to justify demanding more police funding.
And don’t forget trying to drum up support to ban protests.
Those are rookie numbers; gotta pump those numbers up.
I mean…good? People work with oil because it’s cheap. If protests are a way of making it costly, then it’s doing its job.
Why is the default thought to just “Wait until the protests are over”?
Oh no… Anyway
“Met tries to distract from its own horrendous recent record, while pitching for yet more power to clamp down on whoever they feel like”
49 rapes by ONE cop. Never forget.
That’s still got to be orders of magnitude less than the externalized costs of the oil companies in the same time period - even just counting the costs to the UK gov’t and population.
Definitely - but that’s 15% of the Mets budget. Screwed up as it is, it’s also underfunded, and the result is that Londoners who are most affected by crime - predominantly low-income - will pay for this
