Why Policing Is Broken - Jay Darkmoore

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Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

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🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Jay Darkmoore is a former police officer who now speaks out about systemic issues in law enforcement, drawing on firsthand experience to critique institutional failures and advocate for reform | We use Ground News. Click https://ground.news/triggernometry to save on a subscription. Jay's Social Links - https://linktr.ee/Jaydarkmoore Book - The Job’s F****d: The Secret Diary of a Police Officer - https://amzn.eu/d/1aK0yYh Triggernometry is proudly independent. Thanks to the sponsors below for making that possible: - We use Ground News to escape the echo chamber and stay fully informed. Go to https://ground.news/triggernometry to save 40% on the Ground News unlimited access Vantage plan. - We’re honoured to partner with Hillsdale College. Learn for free at https://hillsdale.edu/trigger - Get 50% Off Monarch Money, the all-in-one financial tool at https://www.monarchmoney.com/TRIGGER Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Substack! https://triggernometry.substack.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Shop Merch here - https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: [email protected] Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod/ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod/ About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. 00:00 - Introduction 05:37 - The Level Of Safety In The UK Is Declining 14:16 - Arresting People To Make Statistics Look Better 27:45 - More Horrific Policing Stories 29:30 - Why Are Senior Officers Under So Much Pressure To Push For Arrests? 36:40 - The Effect Of DEI On The Police Force 50:53 - The Police Are Encouraged To Deal With Mental Health Call-Outs 01:03:05 - How Can The Police Be Effective If They're Struggling With The Pressures Of The Job? 01:08:23 - What's The One Thing We're Not Talking About That We Really Should Be? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You can't believe a police statistic because they can be fudged so easily.
0:05.0	You get told it's not a stats game, it's not this, it's not that, when I can clearly see that it is.
0:11.0	Officers are leaving at a rate never seen before.
0:14.0	It's projected by the Police Federation that up to 10,000 officers a year will be leaving soon.
0:19.0	Officers are breaking. And I fear that there is a real public crisis going to happen in their future.
0:27.2	When you're going to pick up the phone to call 999 for support and there's literally not going to be anyone available.
0:34.5	So in order to backfill the people leaving, we are reducing the criteria of people coming in through the front door.
0:41.0	If this was Microsoft or this was Starbucks, you have someone in the job who's maybe not the best qualified, you might just get a shit cup of coffee.
0:48.6	When it comes to the police and dealing with cases and investigating cases, it can potentially be life or death.
0:56.0	This episode is sponsored by our friends at Hillsdale College.
1:00.0	Right after this episode, go check out the incredible online courses,
1:04.0	which are absolutely free at Hillsdale.edu slash trigger.
1:09.0	Jay Dahl, welcome to Trigonometry. It's amazing to be here. Thank you so much for having me trigonometry it's amazing to be here thank you so much for
1:13.0	having me oh it's great to have you on the subtitle of your book is the secret diar of a police officer
1:17.7	and the title is the jobs f*** which i think kind of says quite a lot and you know it's interesting
1:24.7	isn't it because there's these two narratives in our country at the moment.
1:29.3	One is people feel increasingly unsafe, phone thefts feel like everyone I know has had their phone, Nick.
1:35.3	I was actually in London in Mayfair a couple of days ago, and I literally watched the tourists have a bag snatched by a guy on one of those electric bikes.
1:44.6	That's one thing.
1:46.1	And then there's also people who are telling you the crime's never been lower.
1:49.3	Everything's great.
1:50.3	Everything's wonderful.
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