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Badenoch Vows to Scrap UK Equality Duty in Police Row

Is this a costly distraction from frontline crime-fighting or a vital investment in effective community policing?

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Badenoch Vows to Scrap UK Equality Duty in Police Row

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Above: Kemi Badenoch delivers a speech at the Institute for Government in London on June 9. Image credit: Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images

The Spin

Right narrative

U.K. police forces are blowing taxpayer money on DEI officers earning up to £75,000 a year while crime surges and frontline staffing shrinks. London crime has jumped, yet the hiring of inclusion bureaucrats keeps accelerating. The Henry Nowak case proved DEI culture makes officers too scared to do their jobs correctly.

Melissa Chen on X Spectator (UK)

Left narrative

Diversity roles in policing are a strategic investment in building forces that actually work. Evidence shows that inclusive organizations are more effective and better at earning public trust, which is essential for solving crime. Cutting these positions just strips away the infrastructure that helps forces serve every community fairly.

University of Princeton Criminal Justice Alliance