Mayor’s Police and Crime Plan consultation

In order to improve trust in the police, there needs to be recognition and understanding of the institutional wrongdoings of the force. There will be way more respect for the police if they can admit the institutional racism and misogyny within it and make steps to change this. We want to know that you are listening to us and hear us. Many Black youths, Queer folk, and women feel LESS safe with increased police presence.

The Met Police needs to accept it is institutionally racist, institutionally corrupt, and institutionally violent. The most dangerous actor for black men in the capital is the metropolitan police. The picture does not get much better for women. Or children. Or disabled folx. I could go on. The Met Police has shown a contempt for the dignity an lives of black folx, women, LGBT, and faith communities.

Trust and confidence will only be restored when the police return to a community policing model. The style policing which boasts unaccountable, unapproachable, sexist, racist, violent people in uniform maintain their will undermine Peelian policing principles.

Th Mayor and Central government should fun social services, the NHS, an other organisations and stop relying on police to under take tasks that need tact not folx with weapons. In 2022 it is not acceptable to respond to those in mental health crisis with police. They need medical support.

Stop placing police in schools are specially in schools attended by working class folx. Given the Wayne Couzens fiasco the last thing needed is children exposed to violence. Schools are supposed to be safe places. Safety can be true safety if it requires weapons on I to maintain it.

The focus of the entire consultation assumes that policing can be reformed. The tree is rotten it starts at the top. It’s time fo Cressida Dick to move on. If she can accept there is a problem there is no hope.

Make changes to police disciplinary rules so public can access records.

You will know when you’ve succeeded when black folx and women’s groups tell you they feel safe.

Need to tackle institutional racism in the met.
Too much racial profiling and stop and search being abused. It can be an effective tool but far too many officers are abusing it adding to the existing distrust of the service. Needs to be more diverse leadership of the met also

Images of innocent people across London are being taken unlawfully, identified as criminals and contained on Local Authority Watch Lists, I know this because it is happening to me. This practice at its very minimum breaches Article 8 of the Human Rights Act 1998.
It also demonstrates that there is a lack of cohesion in the use of the technology allowing gender, racial, religious and sexual orientation bias to all play a part in the way in which innocent people are criminalised across communities.
Local Authorities have lost control of the technology and therefore have no idea how images of innocent people within their communities, are identified as criminals and remain active on the very watch lists they control, despite have a legal and moral obligation to do so.
Currently most shops and business access biometric devices which are linked to Local Authority technology. As such they can upload images taken on their own in store camaras for whatever reasons they deem necessary. As this process is obscure from track and trace, unmonitored, and unchallenged it is therefore open to abuse.
There needs to be clear robust policy lead by Met Police, collaboratively with the other professional security agencies and adhered to by Local Authorities. The policy should set out defined boundaries regarding the use of biometric devices and collection or use of personal data. This needs to be capable of tracked and traced back to criminals known by the police without disregard but completely compliant with, the Human Rights Act 1998, the Data Protection Act 2018, Protection of Freedoms Act 2012, and Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.
Clarity and transparency is needed if “The overall benefits to public safety must be great enough to outweigh any potential public distrust in the technology”.

Just completed the online survey. It's a pity that crimes like scams/fraud against older people is not on the list. Volunteering for Age UK I have heard of many cases on doorstep scammers targeting older residents out of their life savings.