Oh for crying out loud.
This is not helping. Yes, that's a stupid thing for the police to tweet, but it was in October, and suddenly there is an outraged pile on.
Not buying this. Twitter is a tool that is being used to stoke up anger and frustration, manipulating people from every persuasion into the tribal polarisation that anger creates. NOTHING is ever resolved there constructively. It's a political agitation and anarchy became a website.
More than once I've wished it could be vaporized from existence. Nothing ever changes my mind - everything about this, from the stupid, craven idiocy of the police tweet, to the ranting anger stoked up four months afterwards looks like fools being manipulated.
We're all being played, people. Focus your energies on anything but Twitter - campaign, write emails and letters, have conversations, make real world decisions that make women's lives better, take safeguarding seriously for everyone who is vulnerable, but for fuck's sake stay away from that godawful outrage machine of a website. It's poison.