Disproportionate?
Regrettably the Sabina Nessa case is all too common. You’ll hear similar stories every year.
However the killing of Sarah Everard is, I believe, unique in my lifetime for being committed by a serving (and notably, armed) police officer abusing their tools, training, and the position of power that we as the public grant them.
Beyond that though, the series of pronouncements over the last few days by the Met show that they are institutionally unaware of how to stop it happening again. Their vetting procedures not only allowed this man to join the force, but further allowed him to be given a firearm, and yet their solution has been to advise the public to not come along quietly (I.e. to resist arrest, a crime in and of itself), or to wave down a fucking bus.
TL;DR: It’s about much more than just the crime.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Sun 3 Oct 2021, 1:44,
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