Met police again

[HellonHeels]

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/e1d1770c-0e62-11ed-93cf-b011fa7fe86b?shareToken=38f66dc88f91e6f5204ad1af13c224a9

Are there actually any met officers who behave decently? This came to light only due to a horrific crime committed by another Met officer.

@nitronine I'm certainly happy to concede that the police sometimes have to restrain people for their own good.

I'm also happy to concede that a creepy policeman could derive sexual pleasure from restraining a teenage girl and that the balance of harms still came out that in that particular case he did more good than harm to the girl.

Nevertheless women and girls don't want such men on the police force because the appearance / fear would be that their pleasure in hurting and restraining you would impact (even subconsciously) on their decision making and such abuses tend to escalate.

@howdoesatoastermaketoast

Unfortunately I think it’s entirely possible that for the individual in question, they enjoyed the parts of their job that involved restraining girls & women vastly too much.

What I’ve been trying to express is why, to my understanding, they haven’t been charged with a more serious crime.

I really hope they’ve identified the girl in question & she’s not going to get a horrible shock coming across media coverage of this.

@nitronine I agree completely - I worry that given that "struggle snuggles" seems to have been their euphemism for rape and he talks about his "experience with struggle snuggles" he has committed rapes but the investment of resources into finding evidence vs. the ordinarily high threshold on prosecution means they are getting away with more than they're being prosecuted for.

So I simultaneously support the police / cps for prosecuting the crimes they can, or think they can, get to 'stick', whilst following the maxim 'when someone tells you who they are believe them' and therefore 'believing him' that he is a rapist.