Reply #9: I'm still not optimistic. [View All]

Public inquiries and 'independent' police investigations tend to be stacked with 'establishment' figures and senior police officers from other forces around the country. In the end, these inquiries offer-up one or two sacrificial scapegoats (usually fairly junior officers or politicians), but rarely say anything about the system that led to the 'mistake' or the political machinations behind it.

So now the Metropolitan Police have murdered a Brazilian electrician, shot an innocent man in his own home, spent billions of pounds extending the police-state infrastructure until Britons are now the most 'watched' people in the world (the average Londoner appears on 300 surveillance cameras per day), pushed for the introduction of expensive and pointless biometric national ID cards, and have precisely zero to show for it in terms of increasing the security of the country. Bravo!