On being naïve about the police, forgetting the McPherson report and the subsequent debate
'Sorry Cressida Dick, but as a black former detective I know just how racist the Met still is. In my decade of service, I saw entrenched prejudice…'
However polite the police are at demonstrations they and others in the security services will give ammunition to politicians looking for ways to discredit XR 'Counter-terrorism police placed the non-violent group Extinction Rebellion(XR) on a list of extremist ideologies that should be reported to the authorities running the Prevent programme, which aims to catch those at risk of committing atrocities'
It looks as if a much tougher line is going to be taken by the police in future.