The police and armed forces were traditionally regarded by leftists as foci of social reaction.

I have no particular love for the idealized “worker” as he appears in the bourgeois Communist’s mind, but when I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.
— George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia, Chapter 10

It is therefore a very curious feature of the modern multiculturalist West that the police and armed forces are the most PC-whipped, “diversity”-panicked of our institutions.

General Casey’s remarks on the Fort Hood shooting last November (“I believe it would be an even greater tragedy if our diversity becomes a casualty here . . .”) illustrate the point in the case of the military, as does the ongoing push by top Pentagon officials to have women serving on submarines.

Where the police are concerned, the British have a new poster-guy for this phenomenon: former police Commander Ali Dizaei.

The Iranian-born Dizaei was educated at a good private school in England, took a law degree, then joined the police force in 1986. He rose quickly through the ranks, playing all the race-discrimination angles to advance himself. At one point he was president of Britain’s National Black Police Association. (Here is a picture of Mr. Dizaei.) The Macpherson report of 1999, which accused the Metropolitan Police of “institutional racism” gave his career a boost: he was promoted to Superintendent the following year. (There is a list of U.K. police ranks here.)

In the early 00s Dizaei was investigated for corruption, but the charges were eventually dropped. He promptly wrote a book describing himself as a victim of you-know-what. He was subsequently promoted to the rank of Commander.

Last week Dizaei was convicted of “misconduct in public office” and “perverting the course of justice,” thereby becoming the highest-ranked Met officer in 33 years to be convicted on criminal charges.

Andy Hayman, the former head of anti-corruption and later terrorism chief at Scotland Yard, said . . . that Dizaei was a “violent bully and liar who abused his position of trust” and someone who “cunningly played the system.”
“He knew where he could push the boundaries, and how to use the Met’s fears of appearing racist to make it difficult to investigate him.”
Dizaei has previously faced unproven allegations of taking drugs, spying for Iran, fiddling his expenses, abusing his police credit cards and fabricating evidence.
He has repeatedly accused the Met of racial prejudice to deflect allegations against him, making numerous counter-claims that resulted in previous Scotland Yard commissioners, including Sir Ian Blair, having to apologise to him.

Anyone who lives in England will tell you that the police forces there no longer spend much time investigating crimes. Most of their energies are devoted to proving their “commitment to diversity.” That is the system Mr. Dizaei gamed for 25 years with great skill, until he went a step too far.

The probity and integrity of Britain’s major social systems are being destroyed by the “diversity” cult. The end point of this will be a Middle Eastern bazaar culture, where system-gamers run the show and people who adhere to old-fashioned British standards of honorable and public-spirited behavior will be regarded as fools and losers.