U.K. Police: Whites Need Not Apply

T he West Yorkshire Police’s “Race Action Plan,” as described in the foreword by Chief Constable John Robins, is a “strategy” to “improve policing for Black people.” The localized plan, heavily drawn from the national plan developed by the National Police Chief’s Council and the College of Policing, seeks “an anti-racist culture” in policing and aims to develop “a police service that is anti-racist and trusted by Black people.” The express commitments, taken from the national plan, include “zero tolerance of racism in policing,” “an ‘explain or reform’ approach to address the negative impact and outcomes experienced by Black people,” an understanding of “the history of policing Black people and the ongoing impact and trauma of disproportionality,” and a “representative workforce.” To improve its “internal culture,” the West Yorkshire Police pledged to develop a “bespoke Black history and anti-racism curriculum” and review the “initiatives available to officers and staff that measurably improve recruitment and progression of Black and Black heritage officers and staff.”

The West Yorkshire Police certainly pursued diversifying its workforce — in part by effectively plastering a whites-need-not-apply sign on its door. The Telegraph reports that the “West Yorkshire Police (WYP) is currently preventing white British candidates from applying for jobs as recruits to its police constable entry programmes,” while “‘under-represented’ groups can lodge their applications early.” An internal report to senior officers, shared with The Telegraph by a whistleblower, states the following: “This feeds into a general theme where the pipeline for anyone white British is strangled, whilst anyone not white British is ushered through onto the next available stage.”

Curiously, it wouldn’t have taken a whistleblower to reveal the West Yorkshire Police’s flagrant racial discrimination. As The Telegraph notes, the police force’s own website explicitly confirms different hiring processes based on race: “Due to our police service being under-represented by people from an ethnic minority background, we accept applications all year round from these under-represented groups,” reads a West Yorkshire Police post, which continues that “applications from people from an ethnic minority background are processed through to the interview stage, but then held until recruitment is opened for everyone.” At present, the West Yorkshire Police lists job openings and states that “we are currently accepting applications . . . from people from our under-represented groups,” but adds that “if you are not from one of these groups please keep checking this page for future recruitment opportunities.”

In 2020, progressives shrieked that the “police are systemically racist.” Apparently, that allegation has been perceived as aspirational guidance: In this case, the police are unapologetically discriminating against whites. But this isn’t a unique incident, and prejudice is advanced by the English authorities beyond the West Yorkshire Police. Apart from these hiring practices, the United Kingdom’s police have sought to preserve the optics of successful multiculturalism and therefore regularly ignored perpetrators from minority groups, perhaps best shown by the mounting evidence that authorities largely disregarded Pakistani and Muslim “grooming gang” pimps who horrifically exploited (mostly white) young girls. Despite the stated concern about “disparities,” the authorities seem perfectly happy to heavily patrol right-wingers: GB News recently reported the stunning statistic that the number of people jailed for rioting outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham, where not one hotel employee or asylum-seeking migrant was reported as injured, now exceeds the number of grooming-gang abusers jailed there — even though the bombshell Jay Report concluded that roughly 1,400 children were sexually exploited in Rotherham from 1997 to 2013. And, in the event of prosecution, the judiciary has a light touch when sentencing minorities who have long records of heinous crimes but severely punishes speech deemed offensive: Abdul Rauf served two and a half years for repeatedly trafficking a teenage girl, but Peter Lynch was condemned to spend more time behind bars for shouting at officers outside a hotel with asylum seekers in Rotherham, “You are protecting people who are killing our kids and raping them.”

When the people whose job is to enforce the law seemingly advertise violating it for the sake of “anti-racism,” and when the policing strategy is tailored to overlook certain demographic groups, and when the judiciary goes easy on minority offenders who commit violent crimes, and when statements perceived as right-wing warrant years behind bars, one must conclude that the country is not merely crafting a two-tier system but rather is eagerly pursuing nationwide balkanization through the legal regime, wherein the punishment reflects the perpetrator’s race and does not match the crime.