How the police lost control of London

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How the police lost control of London

Even in supposedly secular and tolerant London, the safety of Jews has recently come to seem an unnervingly fragile thing. Last week, a London police officer was filmed threatening to arrest a man for being “openly Jewish”, and there have been calls for the Met chief Mark Rowley to resign following his force’s litany of failures on this front. But is it fair to castigate the police? A closer look at the Met’s history reveals that the officer in …