Agitate, Escalate, Arrest
The Policing Playbook You Need To Know About
Picture this: a child sexually assaulted, people had warned this was going to happen, the likelihood is it will happen again, authorities too scared of being branded racist and far right to take the necessary action. These are not frivolous complaints or manufactured outrage, but the genuine concerns that drive ordinary people to take to the streets when normal channels have failed them.
How do the police respond? The method is calculated and cynical. First, counter-protesters arrive, often from outside the area, sometimes even escorted to the scene by police, with covert backing or at least passive support from the authorities. Their job is simple: inflame tensions, hurl abuse, provoke reactions. When local protesters understandably respond, the police intervene. But not to maintain impartial order. Instead, they protect the very agitators they've enabled whilst cracking down on the community members they're supposed to serve.
This isn't an accident. It's a deliberate tactic designed to produce several useful outcomes for police and the institutions they shield:
1. Transform legitimate dissent into criminal disorder. By goading protesters into reactive behaviour, the state reframes their grievances. Not as political or moral concerns, but as law and order problems. This delegitimises their cause in the eyes of the public and media.
2. Create media optics that justify repression. A scuffle or arrest caught on camera can be replayed endlessly to suggest chaos and danger, when it was actually orchestrated or provoked. This imagery becomes justification for further surveillance, arrests, and restrictions on future protests.
3. Divide public opinion. Once a protest is tainted with scenes of violence or disorder, even sympathetic observers begin to waver. The tactic sows confusion. Did the protesters lose control, or were they manipulated into reacting? The benefit of the doubt is rarely given to protesters.
4. Deter future mobilisation. When ordinary people see the consequences (arrests, smears, being labelled extremists), they think twice before joining future demonstrations. The chilling effect demobilises communities and preserves the status quo.
5. Strengthen alliances with political actors. By appearing to "keep order" and crush "troublemakers," police forces curry favour with political leaders, local councils, and vested interests threatened by popular resistance.
The police are not there to keep the peace. Their purpose is to manufacture the disorder.
What appears to casual observers as spontaneous unrest is actually the outcome of a carefully engineered confrontation. To those paying attention, these tactics expose something more sinister: that police are not neutral law enforcers, but strategic partners in political containment.
Once you recognise the pattern, you can't unsee it. The provocation, the protective response to agitators, the media narrative that follows. It's theatre.
When those in power fear the truth, their first weapon is provocation. Their second is the story they tell about it. Their third is to criminalise and imprison the very people they were responsible for provoking.
Look at last night's events in Epping. How local people gathered over legitimate concerns about sexual assault charges against an asylum seeker, yet notice how quickly that reason gets buried beneath headlines about "disorder" and "clashes."
Watch the footage with fresh eyes. Read the news stories published in the mainstream media today. See if you can spot the pattern: the counter-protesters who arrived, the police response that followed, the media narrative that emerged. The framework is there, playing out in real time, for those willing to see it.
I am Raja Miah. For six years, I led a small team that exposed how politicians protected the rape gangs.
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