Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick, speaking to Channel 4 News is less than truthful on London's Black public confidence figures.
So during this interview, the Met Commissioner Dick said, ’I don’t accept that confidence is at an all-time low, I think that’s a ludicrous thing to say, just five months ago a survey showed that our black Londoners had, had more confidence in the job of the local police than white Londoners.“ at 8.00 -8.13
That's true. but what she didn't say is that according to the latest figures from the London Mayors Office,
"...those from a Black or Mixed ethnic background are less likely to be satisfied compared with the MPS result (-5 pp. both groups). The gap for the Mixed group emerged in Q2 19-20 and has remained stable since.
However, the gap for Black residents has newly emerged this quarter, following a gradual widening over FY 19-20. Residents from a Mixed ethnic background see large gaps across 5 of the 7 core questions – most notably for ‘fair treatment and ‘listen to concerns’ (both -15 pp).
Looking over time, gaps have widened over the last two years. This increasing inequality has been driven by widening gaps for ‘listen to concerns’ (+9 pp. from Q1 18-19 to Q4 19-20), ‘fair treatment’ (+8 pp.) and ‘good job local’ (+5 pp.).
Residents from a Black background continue to show a large negative gap for ‘fair treatment’ (- 12 pp.), although inequalities have tended to narrow slightly over the last two years." (A Better Police Service For London: MOPAC Surveys Q4 19-20 Results)
So confidence, as defined by 5 of the 7 core questions for the mixed-race category, has in fact widened for Black and Mixed race-ethnic groups in London. She simply manipulating the figures to suit her own ideological agenda. My statement as a former Policing Director for London, that Black public confidence is at an all-time low is certainly not ' ludicrous' its an undeniable, indisputable fact. That she continually seeks to deny this, is why both she and the Met are no longer trusted by Londons Black communities.
In addition in the year 2018/19 the following was recorded;
Further, in this year 2019/20 Black people's confidence fell again, here are the figures from the Mayor's office showing a huge drop in levels of black and mixed-raced public confidence in the Metropolitan police service. I say these are historic and unprecedented lows and therefore accuse the Commissioner of deliberately and knowingly misleading the public.;
https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/mayors-office-policing-and-crime-mopac/data-and-statistics/public-voice-dashboard
So while she may hold the view that the Metropolitan police service is no longer institutionally racist institution, that flies in the face of the majority view of black London communities, who have consistently expressed lower levels of public confidence in the ability of the Met to treat them fairly. That the Commissioner refuses to accept or engage with this strongly held community perception, that is informed by hard facts and data, means in essence that she lacks the necessary insight and understanding to police a multicultural city like London. In short, she lacks the cultural competence to do the job, and as a result, we are seeing black public confidence in London's Police sink to unprecedented new lows.
