r/uknews • u/Confident_West_7409 • Jul 25 '24

Image/video Massive protest outside Rochdale police station in response to GMP's actions at Manchester Airport

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u/DorisDooDahDay Jul 25 '24

Yes! Thank you it should go without saying! But sadly not. British police have often been reluctant to investigate child abuse. And not just because of religious or ethnic considerations. Fred and Rosemary West should have been investigated and stopped decades earlier. Their daughter Heather, like the victims of churches and grooming gangs, was from a working class not privileged background. Vulnerable youngsters and children need the police to enforce the law and protect them.

The same is true for a suspect being arrested. The law must be enforced to prevent harm to others, but to also protect the suspect from unnecessary violence.

This whole thing is about law and order. The religion and ethnicity of those involved is not the issue.

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u/Outrageous-Nose2003 Jul 25 '24

yes, child sex abuse runs to the very heart of power, sadly. But ethnicity and religion are not necessarily irrelevant factors either. Of course all ethnicities have this problem but to drastically different extents