Re: I don't know who's leaking this stuff...

David Dean wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
>  Chris Wright <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> It's also what caused the riots in Brixton in 1981
>>
>> http://www.met.police.uk/history/brixton_riots.htm
> 
>    I almost included a comment that if a 6'4" white guy assaulted a 
> woman, the police would invariably let the white guys pass, but detain 
> dozens of black men until word got out that they should be looking for a 
> white guy.
> 
Back in the 80's that wasn't too far from the truth.
There is still probably an element of that in the UK police force now.

Before I decided to join the Royal Navy I actually interviewed for the 
Metropolitan Police.  Weirdest interview I ever had.
The last part of the interview (which ran over 3 days) was a one on one 
with an officer.
There was the usual questions about myself and it was just meant to so 
that they could get a feel for your personality.
Then he came out with the question, "So you what do you think of niggers 
then?".
If you answered,"they were ok", or "I don't have a problem with black 
people", then he would grill you for 30mins on why you call them 
'niggers'. No matter how many times you would say, you never called them 
that. He would always try and come back to it, and attempt to trip you up.
He would try and do anything to get you to say something slightly 
racist, and try and twist things around to make it seem like you had 
said something racist.  It got very heated and then all of sudden 
another officer would come into the room, announce the interview was 
over and take you straight to the bar to get you a beer and explain it 
was 'just a test'.
I was fuming when I left the room, it started off quiet normal, but you 
felt like the accused by the time you left.
You think of something nasty and he would have said it.
There was a class of about 30 of us, none of which were coloured and 
more surprisingly quite a few were not invited back to the final 
acceptance day.
Having grown up in a town where there was quite a large mixed race 
community, it was the first real racism I was ever exposed to.
I could see why they got you the drink to calm you down, it was akin to 
almost being in shock.
That was probably around 1986/87 when they were trying to get their act 
sorted out.