A whistleblower has alleged that investigators probing the police failures during the Rotherham “grooming gangs” scandal were told not to investigate senior officers.
According to The Times, the inquiry by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) “barely scratched the surface,” focusing instead on lower-ranking officers. This revelation comes despite evidence of systemic failings that allowed the sexual exploitation of at least 1,400 young girls between 1997 and 2013 by groups of predominantly Pakistani men.
Operation Linden, the investigation carried out by the IOPC, found that South Yorkshire police neglected to record crimes when rapes and sexual assaults were reported. Officers also did not question older men found in compromising situations with young, intoxicated girls. However, no officer lost their job, and accountability remained limited to junior officers.
According to the Times, the inquiry lacked depth and there was “no desire” to uncover the reasons behind these systemic failures.
“We were actively told not to pursue senior officers,” the whistleblower claimed. “It was just largely incompetent. There was just no passion or desire within the IOPC to understand what went wrong in Rotherham and find out why those girls were let down. […]
— Read More: humanevents.com
Independent Journalism Is Dying
Ever since President Trump’s miraculous victory, we’ve heard an incessant drumbeat about how legacy media is dying. This is true. The people have awakened to the reality that they’re being lied to by the self-proclaimed “Arbiters of Truth” for the sake of political expediency, corporate self-protection, and globalist ambitions.
But even as independent journalism rises to fill the void left by legacy media, there is still a huge challenge. Those at the top of independent media like Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino, and Tucker Carlson are thriving and rightly so. They have earned their audience and the financial rewards that come from it. They’ve taken risks and worked hard to get to where they are.
For “the rest of us,” legacy media and their proxies are making it exceptionally difficult to survive, let alone thrive. They still have a stranglehold over the “fact checkers” who have a dramatic impact on readership and viewership. YouTube, Facebook, and Google still stifle us. The freer speech platforms like Rumble and 𝕏 can only reward so many of their popular content creators. For independent journalists on the outside looking in, our only recourse is to rely on affiliates and sponsors.
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