“Met tries to distract from its own horrendous recent record, while pitching for yet more power to clamp down on whoever they feel like”

I mean…good? People work with oil because it’s cheap. If protests are a way of making it costly, then it’s doing its job.

Why is the default thought to just “Wait until the protests are over”?

Well, just stop oil then :)

I want to say this makes me happy but who am I kidding, the Met’s obviously saying this to justify demanding more police funding.

Those are rookie numbers; gotta pump those numbers up.

That’s still got to be orders of magnitude less than the externalized costs of the oil companies in the same time period - even just counting the costs to the UK gov’t and population.

Oh no… Anyway

These figures are totally made up.

I’m sure they can sell or loan of one or two stolen artifacts to pay for what amounts to a drop of money in their annual spending.