Double standards

More on the Linehan arrest in the Sunday Times this morning:

The decision to detain Linehan at Heathrow is understood to have been made by an officer below superintendent level and went no further up the Met chain of command. The arrest was enforced by aviation police at the airport who are routinely armed and, the Met claims, work in teams of five.

Sources said this weekend that Rowley and other senior figures at the force were “very much unaware” about what had happened until Linehan went public on his blog — despite the writer’s relatively high profile.

The commissioner’s suggestion that officers’ hands are in effect tied by the law has, however, raised some eyebrows — particularly at a time when shoplifting is at a record high and the public believes that police are routinely choosing not to investigate car break-ins, burglaries and other offences.

And, most significantly here – the part these reports always seem to miss out – violent threats against women by trans activists are routinely ignored by police. 

It's left for the comments to point this out:

Lineham offered basic self defence advice to women that feel threatened by men in their single sex spaces, the same advice that generations of parents have given to their daughters.

Rowley is being disingenuous, plenty of threats of rape, death, burning, decapitating, hanging and throat punching have been made against women by transactivists yet no action has ever been taken against those making these threats and calling for this violence against women.

and:

There is a much bigger story here about a small group of trans-identified men who have targeted gender critical campaigners repeatedly- releasing details of their addresses, their children, and making malicious reports about them to the Police. It is very concerning that the Police seem to take these activists' reports seriously.

As for whether the Police have discretion, I have attended meetings of gender critical people that have been targeted by trans rights activists (including one where they entered the building and refused to leave or to let us in). There have been cases where activists have repeatedly made disruptive noise outside, banged on windows, let off smoke bombs, released insects inside the building, and followed women to a pub and surrounded the building etc. As far as I know, no arrests were made. You just have to look at how the Police in Scotland failed to stop a trans activist with a sound system from drowning out the speeches made by women outside the Scottish Parliament last week. Huge double standards. I've certainly lost much trust in the Police.