David Cole

@BettyBoochichi2 And what's the issue with that? So what you've just admitted is you don't believe the public should be treated with dignity and respect Typical copper basically, an all round nasty piece of work who will abuse their position. You probably would have protected Wayne cousins

Police officers have been told they must treat suspects whom they stop and search with “dignity” in the wake of race rows over the tactic. The College of Policing, the standards body for officers’ conduct, has launched a consultation on new guidance for officers, which it says “places greater emphasis on the quality of the encounter itself”. The guidance says officers must explain “clearly” why they are searching a suspect and treat people with “dignity and respect throughout”. It also gives officers a list of up to eight checks they should make before they search a person whom they suspect of cannabis possession if they smell the drug in the street. The list includes whether the smell can be attributed to a specific person, whether it came from somewhere else, the likelihood of finding cannabis on a specific person and whether a reasonable person would judge a search to be justified. The proposed new guidance has been criticised by the Tories. Chris Philp, the Shadow Home Secretary, said: “This is yet more woke nonsense. The College of Policing should be making it easier to conduct stop and search, not harder. Stop and search takes knives and drugs off the streets and saves lives.” “The Conservative plan is to make stop and search easier and triple its use. Yet these guidelines bleat about racial disproportionality. The fact is, when stop and search rates are compared to the profile of offenders rather than the whole population, there is no disproportionality.” “The success rates of stop and search are the same across ethnic groups, showing that no one - including the black community - is being unfairly picked on. These new guidelines are a waste of time and will simply make stop and search more difficult, putting lives at risk and missing the chance to confiscate illegal drugs.” “I urge the College to cancel this consultation and instead make stop and search easier.” There has been a decline in the number of stop-and-searches by police. They reached a peak of 1.5 million in 2008-2009 before collapsing to 279,000 in 2017 after Theresa May, the then home secretary, issued revised guidance because of her concerns that the tactic was being disproportionately applied in black communities. The number has since risen with successive home secretaries and police chiefs defending the use of “intelligence-led” stop-and-searches to combat rising knife crime. However, the most recent data show that the number of stops and searches fell by 1.4 per cent in the year to March 2025 to 528,582 from 536,217 in the previous year, amid fears by officers that they could be subject to complaints and criticism of the disproportionate use of the tactic. ‘Culture of discrimination’ The college said the new guidance was a direct response to three reports by watchdogs. One found there was still a perception within black communities that it was being used “disproportionately” and that this could “reinforce” the sense that there was a “culture of discrimination within the police”. A second disciplinary action followed against three police officers for “gross misconduct” after they strip-searched a 15-year-old boy in his home without an appropriate adult present. The college said the guidance was designed to address “disproportionality affecting children, young people and other vulnerable groups”. “It strengthens safeguarding requirements and places greater emphasis on the quality of the encounter itself, not just whether a search takes place, but how it is conducted,” it said. It placed “greater focus on communication, helping officers explain clearly why a search is taking place and treating people with dignity and respect throughout”. It also provided guidance on de-escalation, recognising that “how officers engage can significantly affect the outcome of an encounter and its impact on community trust”. Continued…

Losing this title would be more painful than 23-24, I think. City were 8-1 for the title at one point. I’ve passionately argued against the belief we bottled any of the last 3 titles, but this genuinely would be. No getting away from it. And it’s heart breaking.

@xo_xolnjecn I'd like to fertilize your eggs

Not to brag but I’ve got seven Easter eggs

@Stiff_FC @ArsenalN7 Exactly. Getting knocked out of the fa cup doesn't bother me, it's the performances that are a worry though a

@ArsenalN7 Honestly agreed. I don’t think the fanbase is really longing after another FA Cup. More chance to rest for Prem and UCL 🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️

@ArsenalN7 Not a chance

We’re not going to beat Sporting and Bournemouth are we?

@TikiTakaConnor Not in the slightest

Do you trust this team with a 9 point lead in the title race?

@matthewpoteet @LeftNatLeft No we didn't 🤣🤣

@LeftNatLeft You guys needed help in the Falkland Islands? I wouldn’t say that out loud

Britain supported the US with hundreds of thousands of troops in the Korean War, Gulf War, Iraq War, Afghanistan War - and more indirectly. But when literal British territory was invaded in the Falklands, where the fuck were they? Fuck off you fat old orange cunt.

@bsp_13 Absolutely amazing scenes!! 🤣🤣🤣 A tournament Italy can't cheat their way to winning this time. Good riddance!!

unserious team.

@Matin_Zubimendi April 1st is two days away mate..

Arsenal is set to wear the old fashioned 02 in the last premier league match against West Ham. Hopefully we are going to be celebrating something big that day. Thoughts on the kit?

@prestigiotres @afcDW His parents were proud of him. Obviously not something you're familiar with..

@afcDW Mum and Dad were crying, but he said he family don’t like football 🤣 the walking contradiction

White on his 1st England call-up in 2021: "It was obviously unbelievable. [I] put the phone down, rang my mum straight away, sat down there, cried, mum was crying, my dad. "I just sat and cried for about an hour, couldn’t really believe it." Playing for ENGLAND never the issue.

@OfficialTomLee @DougieCritchley So you know for a fact what went on do you? It's you that sounds like the narrow minded judgemental whopper

@DougieCritchley What’s also weird is the Arsenal fans’s tweets in the last couple days about Steve Holland, as if Ben White is the second coming of Franz Beckenbauer and we’ve missed out on him 😂 He’s a whopper who couldn’t deal with some home truths.

I do think it's slightly weird behaviour from the England fans that booed Ben White at points last night... No one knows the ins and outs of what happened with Steve Holland... The biggest loser of his self-imposed exile was Ben White, with the Stones-Maguire axis unlikely to be shifted. He doesn't owe England anything, it was a personal decision. Not sure booing him is the right course of action for an introverted character re-entering the international stage.

@Andymb28 @artetasexuals @afcevan It's pretty much everything to do with him being an arsenal player. Don't gaslight us over wise

@artetasexuals @afcevan Nothing todo with being an Arsenal player 🤦‍♂️

Wow, surprised by that reaction to Ben coming on. Pretty ridiculous considering we really have very little idea why he left the World Cup in 2022

@7ontheshirt He is, isn't he..?

They love this argument, until you try to say it makes Ray Parlour better than almost every player in their entire history

"What is inclusive about the Burqa for everybody else?" "If John concurs with this view, that's NOT RACISM! It's an alternate view and you are allowed to have it" Simon Jordan rightly defends John Terry for commenting on @RupertLowe10's post. Love this guy Always speaks sense

Peter Drury>>>> "Boy, did they find the boy" Arteta needs to give Max Dowman maximum minutes, man. #ARSEVE

@InvertTheWing Personally as a fan of Arsenal, I would absolutely love to see Tottenham get relegated. Because they're shit.

Personally, as a neutral of The Premier League, I would absolutely hate to see Tottenham get relegated. They gave me some of the most knowledge to develop my ideas tactically. I learned a lot from Pochettino’s stint from 2014, and he inspired me a lot when learning as a coach. In between that period they also hired elite, respected coaches such as Mourinho, Conte, that really should have entertained the casual. They produced/developed some of the best players to ever grace football or the league. The likes of Kane, Walker, Son, Bale, Modric. The same with Ange Postecoglou, later. Gave me the most entertaining Premier League matches.

At the end of this season, a serious conversation needs to be had about the shameless reporting and coverage from Sky Sports and other media outlets. They have spent the year constructing a false narrative that has fueled orchestrated attacks on Arsenal, the manager, the players, and even the fans. It is telling that Manchester City - whom the Premier League has a pending case against for nearly a decade of alleged cheating - have never received this level of hostile scrutiny.

@history99917180 @SamRaincock You don't become as bad as them at all that's complete nonsense 🤣🤣 Once you do what Huntley did you loose your human rights. Those rights only apply to people who believe in them themselves

@SamRaincock Oh aye mate. Met lots of people I thought deserved to die for things they did. But, if we take that direction we become as bad as them. What makes us better than them is the way we treat such people.

Mixed feelings on this. I worked on the Soham job. I was at the deposition site the day they found their bodies. I wish I hadn’t looked into the ditch. I have no sympathy for this beast. But, I’d preferred him to rot away in a cell and suffer everyday. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@spencermorgan93 @CraigMealy What part of his tweet didn't you understand? He's saying your scumbag dad isn't one of us and never will be. Has he hacked anymore dead girl's phones recently btw?

@CraigMealy Can’t be an Arsenal fan cos someone I’m related to did something when I was seven. Got it 😂

He then went on to betray the fans in 2000…. You can sit in a box as much as you want at home games but you’ll never be one of us 😎