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England and Canada, two nations in steep economic and global decline, both systems with deeply rooted, centralized abusive, unaccountable police apparatuses.
Go figure.
I noticed even the U.S media didn't get too excited when Biden met Johnson. Maybe they are starting to learn that there was a reason America found independence from the Monarchy.
You either clean up your nation or, the world will clean up your economy.
www.theguardian.com
Boris Johnson’s anti-corruption tsar has piled renewed pressure on Cressida Dick after describing the findings of an inquiry that called the Metropolitan police institutionally corrupt as “horrifying”.
The prime minister’s anti-corruption champion, John Penrose MP, said it was vital that new measures be considered in the wake of last week’s bombshell report into the unsolved murder of Daniel Morgan to prevent police closing ranks in the future.
Last week, an independent inquiry set up to review the notorious death of the private detective in 1987 accused Scotland Yard of decades of cover-up, corruption and incompetence. It concluded that the Met had been more interested in protecting its reputation than solving the murder.
The private investigator Daniel Morgan, who was killed in 1987. The Met has yet to fully respond to the corruption allegations surrounding his murder. Photograph: Metropolitan Police/PA
The intervention of Penrose, who presides over the UK’s national anti-corruption strategy, is noteworthy because one of his primary focuses is the “insider threat” within police – corruption among officers.
Go figure.
I noticed even the U.S media didn't get too excited when Biden met Johnson. Maybe they are starting to learn that there was a reason America found independence from the Monarchy.
You either clean up your nation or, the world will clean up your economy.
Anti-corruption tsar vows to tackle Met police over Daniel Morgan cover-up
Pressure increases on Cressida Dick to resign as commissioner after PM’s adviser condemns ‘horrifying’ findings of inquiry into murder of private detective
www.theguardian.com
Boris Johnson’s anti-corruption tsar has piled renewed pressure on Cressida Dick after describing the findings of an inquiry that called the Metropolitan police institutionally corrupt as “horrifying”.
The prime minister’s anti-corruption champion, John Penrose MP, said it was vital that new measures be considered in the wake of last week’s bombshell report into the unsolved murder of Daniel Morgan to prevent police closing ranks in the future.
Last week, an independent inquiry set up to review the notorious death of the private detective in 1987 accused Scotland Yard of decades of cover-up, corruption and incompetence. It concluded that the Met had been more interested in protecting its reputation than solving the murder.
The private investigator Daniel Morgan, who was killed in 1987. The Met has yet to fully respond to the corruption allegations surrounding his murder. Photograph: Metropolitan Police/PA
The intervention of Penrose, who presides over the UK’s national anti-corruption strategy, is noteworthy because one of his primary focuses is the “insider threat” within police – corruption among officers.
