Imagine the shame you would feel if you were Cressida Dick now.

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It’s just unfathomable.

I’ve held senior roles with something of a weight of responsibility on my shoulders before. It’s not easy.

But to have it made so public that you are responsible for such a vast level of incompetence in such a vital public service organisation must be crippling.

To know the suffering, the injustices, and the lives that have been lost because of your policies and your decisions.

I don’t know how she lives with herself.

Yeah more of the same. All talk, and no action. This Met police commissioner has already shown that he is not willing to listen to irrefutable findings that the Met is institutionally racist.

She won't feel any shame at all she's a copper, and a friend of Boris Johnson

A friend of Boris Johnson?

She'll have dirt/kompromat on enough people + friends in the right places

Does that include Keir Starmer?

“I’ve worked with Cressida over many years in relation to some very serious operations when I was director of public prosecutions. I was pleased that her contract was extended and I support her.”
www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/starmer-hands-his-solid-support-to-under-fire-met-police-commissioner

As director of public prosecutions, Starmer refused to prosecute the police officers accused of killing Jean Charles de Menezes...
www.independent.co.uk/voices/keir-starmer-labour-leadership-cps-ian-tomlinson-john-worboys-a9276321.html

Because in large institutions like the police and definitely within the sacred cow that is the NHS, the shit floats upwards.
These people who fuck things up royally are too expensive and too difficult to get rid of, so they get promoted. Especially since she is a woman. As a minority in the police, it would have played out very badly had they sacked out, despite her utterly incompetent decision making regarding De Menezes. She would have had a field day with them. It is exceptionally counter intuitive, but these large institutions are full of inept and useless employees in positions of rank, status and power.
Welcome to modern Britain.

No, we can't blame her for everything that was and us wrong with the Met. No one is doing that tbh. We can definitely blame her for her own failures, incompetence and lack of leadership and action.

I'm glad people are mentioning Jean Charles, I think about his awful murder a lot. Killed in cold blood and she kept her job then and felt no compulsion to resign so nothing surprises me now.

Absolutely, this.

Everybody knows that sinking feeling when you realise you’ve made a cock up at work. For most people, it makes you feel small and knocks your confidence a bit. Even when the consequences of the mistake are really not that huge.

How anyone can make such a catastrophic cock up, that results in somebody’s death, and then have the nerve to apply for promotion is mind boggling.

I think this alone tells me all I need to know about her.

It’s not a question of having the nerve to apply for promotion.

She will have been politicking for it, groomed for it (to coin a phrase) and people would have been supporting her for it FOR YEARS. Maybe someone influential didn’t want the alternative. Maybe she was malleable. Maybe she was a puppet. Could be anything.

Jean Charles was no more than bad publicity for her and her supporters. It’s beyond disgusting. If you look at these things from the most terrible possible perspective, it makes sense. If you apply decency, good values, moral behaviour - it’s unfathomable.

Thesharkradar · Yesterday 12:20

She'll have dirt/kompromat on enough people + friends in the right places that she won't face any consequences herself

Private Eye ran some articles on her, after the Jean Charles de Menezes killing. They spoke to old university colleagues and Police colleagues, who said that she was always a shrewd political operator, who knew how to manipulate people by either buttering them up, or pressuring them with skeletons from their closets.

By this reckoning then, and also bearing in mind at least two occasions where she used her position to obstruct justice (Daniel Morgan and the corruption enquiry that she obstructed), should she have questions of corruption to answer?

Rather than just incompetence.

I suppose so, but there needs to be the political will to do so and the powers that be are more interested in ignoring things like this, or brushing them under the carpet, if anyone shows any interest.

I suspect tarring all 30,000 met officers with this brush that they are corrupt or lack any empathy at all is not only vastly generalised but downright wrong.

The irony of the police being treated as a single ethnic group rather than individuals is too great for this thread. Indeed for this universe.