Essex police drop Allison Pearson investigation

Good

Had she agreed to be interviewed the CPS would have assessed what she said to the Police, as they decide who is prosecuted not the Police   

The Squeezed Middle  
Glad to hear you've got around to reading my post made on the morning of Tuesday 19th 

'And so when it gets pushed further down the line to Essex Police they're the only one's out of the three forces involved that finally made a decision to scrap the NCHI option and to request to interview Pearson with a view to charging her with malicious communication'


But can we really say this was a case of shooting from the hip ? ..... it was 12 months since Pearson was reported to the Police for this tweet before a couple of Coppers knocked on her front door. And as I said in my post of 17th November on the same subject: 'The Essex force made two ‘assessments’ of the case before they finally came to their decision to open an investigation' .... more than enough time to weigh up options and the likely consequences.

Sorry, that got lost in the signal clutter. Although I did say at the time the some were confusing crime and "Non Crime Incidents".



Nope. Which is why I didn't. Now what was that you were saying about reading posts?

(Although, for the record, the police do shoot from the hip far too often and without any consideration for where the case is likely to go. Which is why they end up looking stupid so often).

The Squeezed Middle 

The time to exercise discretion was when they were making their assessments, one very important assessment would have been assessing whether they could make the case stick and if there was any serious hope of Pearson being found guilty. When it came to assessments they got it badly wrong. What we witnessed yesterday was an omission of defeat and a hurried climb down. Yesterday breakfast time I listened to Pearson go on the attack, basically saying 'bring it on' to the Essex Force, listing those, such as ex Cabinet Ministers and others with recent connections to the Essex Force that were backing her, and saying the Essex Force at the top was now riddled with Wokeism:

'I think I'm afraid to say, and this is a very very sad and fearful conclusion, that these Graduates from the College of Policing, who are completely captured by Woke ideology, by diversity, equality and inclusion, seem to now see their job as defending minorities against the majority white population ..... this is an allegation that seems to be borne out by people .... we would get less respect and attention to our complaints than one coming from a favoured minority group'

and Pearson pointed to an example

'So let's just give another example of the marvellous Essex Police who this week decided that an Imam, who had in a sermon in the mosque, had said basically "destroy all the Zionists", you know, one of those, not something that I ever advocate, going around destroying anyone's homes, but the Imam ? ...no further calls for investigation !! .... Alison Pearson ?, respectable, you know, Daily telegraph columnist, let's send two Coppers round !. This is an astonishing jaw-dropping double standard, and I think they cannot reconcile these problems!'

As I say, at breakfast time Pearson gave them both barrels and threw down the gauntlet, and by the time I got home from work in the evening the news was that Essex Police had announced their investigation against Allison Pearson was suddenly being called off completely. Damage limitation, waving the white flag ...... and maybe a phone call from higher up saying look, you're bang to rights, and your two tier Wokeism is going to fail miserably when Pearson exposes it in a Courtroom ...... put a stop to this now, your discretion of 'go after her' has utterly failed, get yourself some super-fast new discretion this very afternoon labelled 'Oops sorry Alison .....really sorry to have troubled you, let's both forget and say no more about it'