What kind of police force is such that hides proper information from the public?
So much for being a public servant, eh?
Don't know about police being racists, but certainly anti people, as they embrace woke culture and take to the knee...
Tick-Tock! Tick-Tock!
If the British military sees through what the cops are up to, then that's certainly good to hear. And yeah, I hear what you are saying about the wokeness.
I don't call the cops, I ain't a snitch. You got the wrong idea projected onto me.
1) They are downplaying criminal activity because they don't want to encourage criminal activity by giving criminals publicity.
2) They aren't sharing specific details about certain crimes because insane people or bored people try to take credit for a crime just to get attention. By keeping details secret they can find the right person during interviews.
3) They don't want to alarm the public any further.
4) They don't want to give a criminal a chance to escape by saying they know where he/she lives.
Not everything is a "police are pigs' consipiracy.
Plausible reasons, some more and some less than others. Some wouldn't be as much of a problem if the public was armed in general.
As I've written below, they've been pretty cautious as to what they released to the public prior to this day, and considering they don't even give the public access to their older notice archive suggests somethings not exactly right. Plus, they've done some stuff that have managed to do nothing but lower the public's trust in the police. Stuff like produce a youtube video using their lion mascot, which encouraged kids to report their parents to police for "hate speech", and being involved in political demonstrations when they should remain apolitical.
Removing that sort of information from the public would be slowing down their investigations because most crimes need the public's help to solve them.
Are they still reporting on social media? It might just be their website isn't getting enough views to keep it there.
Or possibly if a high number of criminals are black/minority, the police might be afraid of/or are getting a lot of threats because of it. Wouldn't surprise me to be honest, because police forces all over the world are getting this a lot of that now. It just means that now a lot of crimes will go unsolved or will take longer to solve.
And I'm pretty sure political correctness plays it's part in it too.
That makes sense. I would probably agree with you that it's partially, if not completely, politically correctness.
I didn't know that. That doesn't sound so good considering the police are supposed to be the protectors of the people.
It's always frightening to hear of racist police officers. It would make sense that they would want to cover that up, it would cause SO much hatred towards the police and cause a lot of trouble. It is sad though, because sane people understand it's not the whole police force which are bad and racist, but a few individuals that give the bad name.
Perhaps I should have used the plain word "bulletin" in the OP. The point is, the Police of Finland had a portion in their website which contained all the up-to-date notices about crimes that had happened, what and where, requests for witness accounts of crimes or information about missing people, that sort of stuff. You know, stuff that would help both the police and the ordinary citizens. But now all that's been removed, no doubt because of political correctness or something like that.
Ah, I see. I can understand why that might piss you off, but there could be severe negative effects if it isn't very carefully run. Say tipping off crime organisations about undercover work, tipping off suspects about potential witnesses or arrests that are coming, or revealing names of innocent people in a suspicious light, and getting them fired, ostracized or potentially destroy their attempts to gain their rights (custody battles, divorces, immigration papers, etc.). Maybe that happened once too often, and they got sued too much.
Well, from what I've seen, they seemed pretty careful and sparse about what information they released. Plus, from my understanding, it can be difficult for a person of police authority to get sued here. So I doubt it's that. My bet would be on that it's because of the increasing immigrant criminality, as has been told by some police officials before, that most of the criminal actions seem to come from people of immigrant background.
So it was potentially racist, and got percieved as such.
I don't see how sharing information about a suspect's identifying factors could be racism. The main concern of the police should be to get the suspect in custody, and if they're going by onlooker accounts, then it's mighty hard if they leave out crucial details like ethnicity, facial characteristics or that sort of things.