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🗓️ 6 April 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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0:00.0 | You know, we mentioned earlier the way the MET was used during a minor strike, but the MET was |
0:04.0 | also used in the 19th century to go and repress chartist demonstrations in other bits of |
0:07.8 | the country. |
0:08.7 | You know, there are certain points at which you can clearly see the government has used |
0:12.7 | the police as a tool of class power. |
0:15.5 | But I think more often than that, it's about, and this goes back to that, and I think this partly explains |
0:23.3 | why this stuff has become so much more controversial and intense in the last five, ten years. |
0:28.5 | It's not about police protecting one identifiable group of society from another a lot of the |
0:35.4 | time. It's that what they're there is cleaning up |
0:37.9 | the mess and chaos and destruction caused by capitalism and the particular type of capitalism |
0:43.9 | that we, you know, we've been living under for several decades. And it's, I suppose it's, |
0:49.6 | I think this is also a useful place to bring in. I think you're an implicit alternative to policing |
0:56.7 | by consent of an account of the role of the Met specifically that runs through your article, |
1:01.9 | which is that they have to be understood as the junior partner in the triple partnership of |
1:06.9 | the Tory party specifically, the right wing press specifically, and then the police forces generally and the Met specifically in basically being the three main tools of like right wing hegemony. |
1:17.7 | And that is with a lot of like what the Met choose, not just how the Met chooses to operate, you know, for example, but the kinds of things that they, the kinds of things that they, that they, |
1:28.3 | that they choose to criminalize. So like a lot of the like nonviolent drug, like drug crime and |
1:32.5 | stuff, the fact that like they threatened to quit if they can't do stop and search on whoever |
1:36.8 | they want. But also that in seeing them this way, I think, right? You also, you also can |
1:43.3 | account for some of their fail, |
1:44.7 | some of their collapse in legitimacy, which is that the image of the police as something that |
1:50.1 | does something for you and in a way that makes, in a way that appeals to people that might |
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