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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7101942.stm
lol
choice quotes:
"criticised for being too male" (what defines more maleness or less, I thought it was either you are or aren't)
"The Met will spend £15,000 in making three new characters."
The original mascot was based on a real guy and got on well with kids. Maybe cos he was based on a real guy rather than the fantasy-land-childrens-tv PC world kids could relate a bit better.
I think they'd be much better off just saving the cash and buying a Barney outfit, that's much more appropriate, then you're not being equally discriminatory to everyone . (Except purple dinosaurs)
P.s. my spell check didn't like barney, it prefers Barney! lol madness
lol
choice quotes:
"criticised for being too male" (what defines more maleness or less, I thought it was either you are or aren't)
"The Met will spend £15,000 in making three new characters."
The original mascot was based on a real guy and got on well with kids. Maybe cos he was based on a real guy rather than the fantasy-land-childrens-tv PC world kids could relate a bit better.
I think they'd be much better off just saving the cash and buying a Barney outfit, that's much more appropriate, then you're not being equally discriminatory to everyone . (Except purple dinosaurs)
P.s. my spell check didn't like barney, it prefers Barney! lol madness
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The last one cost £1k, which was paid for by sponsorsip. This time the Met is paying and 3 cost £15.
Now, I know I've only got A level maths, but to my mind 3 x £1k = much much much less than £15k.
(you did warn me not to look but its like a horror film, you just can't help it)
That's for the next week...
It's a bit of a waste of money isn't it?
How is a white male PC not representative of the met police force when most of the people in the police are probably white males. It's designed to be for kids to get them to build relationships with the police etc. and it was doing it's job. It's only critics who say 'that's racist cos it's white' or sexist, for being 'too male', that mean the met are having to pay £15K to have now three models to satisfy the critics.
I think basing the first model on a real PC was a brilliant idea, instead of now just making them up to cover themselves.
POTW awesome
But is it representative, given that only 3.7% of the police are non-white?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6570545.stm
I don't really have an opinion on the matter, I can see the intention and it is perhaps a noble one but does anyone really give a fuck what the police mascot looks like?
Met Police chiefs will spend £15,000 creating "ethnically diverse" mascots after one of their officers criticised an existing model for being too male and white.
[...] one of the force's sergeants slammed the character for failing to represent the capital's communities. He said the figure, which is white with blue eyes and blond hair, risks leaving Asian and women officers "isolated".
So far from this being something brought about by the invisible 'PC brigade' it seems it was a police sergeant.
EDIT: But do they really have that kind of pull?! Do you reckon the media got hold of this non-story of a complaint and thereby made sure the changes would happen?
I don't see how a mascot is going to appeal to black or asian people or whatever. Maybe an actual black policeman or woman would!
At the end of the day I fail to be moved or bothered much by any (non)story that has the "PC gone mad" tag attached to it.
Hang on a second Jim. When did this mascot become a mascot for one-legged orphans with diseases? It's a mascot to be sent in to junior schools to talk to kids.
IT'S JUST A FUCKING LOGO!
End of story.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7107631.stm
But that's a good point, actually. Do we want to send a mascot to schools that is a lookalike of the police chief who oversaw the execution of an innocent man by the police and then lied about the events and tried to stain the character of the victim? I shouldn't think that is the best ambassador the police could employ...
The article says that the mascot was used in schools and at public events. I can't see anywhere where it mentions it's to be used as part of minority interaction, but suddenly that notion is introduced to the thread and the inference is made that if you're criticising the money being spent on this thing then you're not concerned about dead minorities.
Things change with small measures in the end, given a more welcoming face to young children from ethnic minorities for a police officer, as opposed to other more negative views they will hear seems to be valuable.
However I think actual police officers would obviously be a better option.
Mate, please, read the link again. This is the Met mascot, not the police. This debate is only about London, not anywhere else. That's why I'm talking about London
I'm fully aware that London has a higher proportion of ethnic students in it's schools - though by no means across the board - and even so, this doesn't address my point. Perhaps what we actually need is a small force of culturally-sensitive plastic police-people?