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The rejection of external scrutiny on police conduct in the Henry Nowak murder leaves documented disparities unaddressed.
Essex Police's facial recognition scans 1.3 million faces for 48 arrests, exposing bias and low efficacy. Government expansion ignores evidence of inefficiency and unfairness in policing tech.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood centralises 43 underperforming police forces into a National Police Service, repeating structural fixes that ignore frontline failures and historical inertia. Outcomes point to uniform decline, not reform.
Police propose axing non-crime hate incidents after 133,000 entries diverted resources from real threats. The 2005 policy, warped by online disputes, exemplifies cross-party inertia in UK policing.
West Midlands Police banned Israeli fans citing fabricated intelligence from unrecorded calls and AI errors. IOPC demands explanations amid parliamentary lies, exposing neutrality's collapse and trust erosion.
Activist groups demand police halt ethnicity disclosures in high-profile crimes, claiming prejudice despite policy's roots in curbing Southport riots. This obscures crime patterns and erodes trust across institutions.
A police leader equates national flag surges with division, overlooking migration policy failures that fuel public tensions. This stance highlights institutional disconnects in addressing social fractures across governments.