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The UK stories that genuinely baffle me are the ones about police having children with activists they were sent to spy on: * https://www.theguardian.com/uk-new
by mherdeg 4y ago
The UK stories that genuinely baffle me are the ones about police having children with activists they were sent to spy on:
* https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/22/fourth-officer-allegedly-fathered-child-after-meeting-woman-undercover https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/22/fourth-offic...
* https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/jan/20/undercover-police-children-activists https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/jan/20/undercover-police...
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_undercover_policing_relationships_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_undercover_policing_relatio...
What is going on here? Does this happen in any other country? What??
- JTbane 4y agoYou've heard of speed dating, now try snitch dating!
- stefan_ 4y agoWhile you are here, how about executing a random person in the London subway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Jean_Charles_de_Menezes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Jean_Charles_de_Me...
- matt-p 4y agoThat was horrific and so deeply tragic. Without diminishing that I would say this kind of event is extremely exceptional and there's an enormous bar to a police officer even carrying a weapon in the UK and that was an Mi5 failure.
- TeaDude 4y agoPerson who authorized that was promoted into becoming the (now former) head of the metropolitan police btw.
- mrguyorama 4y agoThere are cases of American police sleeping with women they are supposed to be arresting. Arguably, they should not be able to have sex with someone they have power over, but some locales have affirmed their option to do so.
- willcipriano 4y agoHappens in the US as well: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/female-fbi-informant-slept-in-same-room-smoked-marijuana-with-whitmer-kidnap-plotter/ar-AA10D3Nb https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/female-fbi-informant-sl...