By: frances heywood

frances heywood
Wed, 27 Nov 2024 06:54:48 +0000

In reply to A Welch.

I’m not sure the MacPherson report (after the Lawrence enquiry) had good intentions. It introduced into the public domain – and especially into the police hierarchy – the concepts of ‘institutional’ and ‘unwitting’ racism. It also stated that ‘perception’ is everything : if someone perceives that someone/something is racist, then the perception makes it a fact.
To argue that mere perception of something makes it a fact is monstrous.

So we already have a ‘victim’ and a ‘perpetrator’. The police are wont to call the aggrieved person a victim rather than what they are in law, a ‘complainant’
So the use of the word victim by the police, and the whole edifice of NCHIs, assumes guilt before any due process.
It stinks and as you say, NCHIs should be scrapped.