Sex offender David Carrick is sacked. But will heads roll under the home secretary or many more officers slip under the radar?
Let’s think this one through. We all know that the Metropolitan police has a culture of misogyny and racism. That’s accepted by almost everyone. Even the Met. Now imagine someone who is so far above the abusive norm that he is given the nickname of “Bastard Dave” by his fellow officers. A man beyond the pale even for certified wrong’uns. The Bastard’s Bastard. That someone was David Carrick. A man whose obvious unfitness for the job seemed to be a cause of celebration rather than shame.
Not once does anyone appeared to have had second thoughts about Bastard Dave. Quite the reverse. Every time he was linked to another crime against women he seemed to get another promotion. The Met’s very own Bastardised version of confirmation bias. If Carrick was out there, committing all these crimes, then he must be “one of us”. On the side of the angels. The kind of copper to make London proud. He wasn’t even suspended when he was finally accused of rape.
