According to Police Scotland, the police aim to ensure "everyone is able to flourish knowing they are valued for their true and authentic selves". No wonder they're so useless at fighting crime, says Dr David McGrogan. https://t.co/k9ja25rFHA
— Toby Young (@toadmeister) June 22, 2025
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[T]he police do not do anything so prosaic as patrol the streets and deter crime. No: what they do is ensure that “everyone is able to thrive and flourish knowing they are valued for their true and authentic selves”. The police, you see, are there to combat “isolation” and the feeling that people might get that they are “unwelcome” or “rejected”. They “continually listen”, “help people identify and report hate crime” and “record and manage information to build deeper knowledge and understanding”. And they carry out “proactive information campaigns” to “challenge people to reflect on their own behaviours and attitudes” so as to nip hatred in the bud “before it happens”.
They in other words take on the role of benign busybodies, carefully monitoring what people are saying and thinking, and working to ensure that nobody is ever permitted to speak or behave in such a way as to interfere with anyone else’s “right to live safely and happily” as their (again) “true and authentic selves”.
This is laughable drivel, of course, although the smile on one’s face begins to fade when one considers that was written by the second most senior police officer in Scotland. Barely a moment’s thought has gone into it: Ritchie cannot possibly mean what he thinks he means, because anybody who reflected for even a moment would soon realise that being one’s “true and authentic self” is the last thing that should be encouraged in psychopaths, sexual predators, kleptomaniacs, exhibitionists, delinquents, misogynists, racists, paedophiles, arsonists, people who watch TikTok videos on public transport without headphones, or indeed even people who just aren’t very nice….
Mick Hartley 
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