From the outside looking in, the British justice system is impossible to understand. From the inside looking out, it’s impossible to explain.
Founded in 2012, the College of Policing (CoP) has been captured by sexual politics. Gender-based activism has been passed from the CoP to regional police forces, resulting in numerous wrongful or spurious convictions. Media-justice legal-dominance feminists have erased the difference between a hand on a knee and premeditated stranger rape. ‘Sex Offender’ headlines are arguably part of political feminism’s plan to remove non-compliant or insufficiently risk-averse men from society.
If the justice system is broken it’s because of the complications brought in by New Labour, followed by the inversion of due process by Keir Starmer with his ‘believe the victims’ policy (then popular with the populist tabloids). Starmer’s successor at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), Alison Saunders, should arguably be stripped of her damehood and £1million pension due to the damage she did to thousands of wrongfully convicted men and their families. Instead, she went on to be a ‘specialist’ in conflict resolution at law firm Linklaters. This should have received the same derision received by news of Blair’s ‘middle-east envoy’ position, but she wasn’t well-known or glamorous enough.
All this and more is why the sex offences treatment industry needs to be dismantled. When false memories of abuse are encouraged by therapists, an anti-family bias is all too often exposed (see Dr Kevin Felstead’s Memory & Injustice), attached to some historical grievance the facilitators themselves feel. With some of the younger complainants - i.e. Those based in the Title IX ‘campus rape allegation’ era - the Kids Without Phones initiative could be a lifesaver for the futures of numerous young men. How about a return to books and aspiration, rather than gossip, grievance and neurosis?
#MeToo wasn’t about social justice, it was the extra-judicial weaponisation of personal grievance. Much of #MeToo was and is based on jealousy, as engineered prosecutions became closely entwined with the media-justice feminism movement. A well-known MeToo’d musician has said ‘promiscuity is not perversion’, highlighting the reality of offence scope-creep if it is subjective tears, rather than objective behavioural facts, that become the arbiter of social justice. And, of course, men can weaponise false allegations too (particularly when their own grievance over cheating girlfriends can be swerved with false or exaggerated allegations).
Prisoners Maintaining Innocence (PMIs) aren’t convicted in their heads, so the experience of probation turns into a mental health journey. In the need to reform the UK prisons industry, it’s important to remember that the biggest evil in prisons is bureaucracy. Leaving prisoners’ human rights should be prioritised over perceived ‘risk’, and probation individualised.
A strange sort of Cold War in the realm of probation rumbles on, undetected and uncared about by a media only interested in stories where someone has committed violent acts while under supervision. It’s ‘gotcha’ culture at its most miserable, playing into a readers’ worst instincts, forgetting the thousands of cases of successful rehabilitation. Probation are not God, though they can act with an arbitrary power that must make some of their less good-faith number feel like they are.
The probation service needs to take maintaining innocence seriously. Even for the few who may be lying or in denial, the stance itself is a ‘protective factor’ in their risk assessment. Broad-brush #MeToo-era safeguarding of innocent people is when community policing becomes vigilanteism. The real problem with probation is that the process is the punishment, and some of its practitioners are hammers to whom everything looks like a nail. In ‘safeguarding’, freedom of expression is ignored, as those who have been through the criminal justice system are seen as second-class citizens, despite all the progressive messaging insisting that is not the case.
The role of probation is a person-on-probation (PoP) focussed institution based on rehabilitation, whether that be from a criminal past or a wrongful conviction, should be prioritised in any justice reform shake-up. While the College of Policing is governed by spurious instructions gleaned from gender studies academic papers, the numbers of miscarriages of justice will only increase, costing more in terms of the imprisonment of innocent prisoners, compensation, destroyed lives and the international reputation of the British justice system.
By False Allegations Writing Collective
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