Disturbingly nicknamed
So Wayne Couzens’s colleagues in the police called him “The Rapist.” Hawhaw, boys will be boys eh? Nicknames are enough, no need to do anything about him.
The Met Police hired Sarah Everard‘s killer despite him being disturbingly nicknamed ‘The Rapist’ and the claim that he drove around naked in 2015 – three years before he was hired in London, it has emerged.
Wayne Couzens’ ex-colleagues at the Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC), where the 48-year-old joined in March 2011, reportedly gave him the nickname because he made some female officers feel uncomfortable.
And by “uncomfortable” they mean “afraid.”
The Met is under pressure to investigate how Couzens, who pleaded guilty to murdering 33-year-old Ms Everard after snatching her off the street, was able to continue serving as an officer despite suspicions being raised about his behaviour.
Well they’re busy not prosecuting rape, you see.
Harriet Wistrich, director of the Centre for Women’s Justice, is among those calling for a full public inquiry into ‘police failures and misconduct and the wider culture of misogyny’ following Couzens’ guilty plea.
Ms Everard’s murder sparked protests by women fearing for their own safety earlier this year.
Ms Wistrich said: ‘As protesters made clear, women do not feel safe and it is incumbent on the Government and all criminal justice agencies to now take action over the epidemic of male violence which is the other public health crisis of our day.’
If Couzens has any sense he will immediately identify as a woman.
What better cover for a predator than a police officer?
How many more such fine, upstanding citizens are amongst the ranks of the constabulary? Any more “disturbingly nicknamed” officers? Is anyone looking at incidents Couzens was sent to investigate? Are there any unsolved disappearances of women he could be connected to? How did he get the job? What talents did the police force see in him? Was he hired for having well-polished boots? Particularly staight, white teeth? There must have been something he brough to the table to make up for a history of predatory behaviour. Superior organizational and filing skills? A neat desk top? I wouldn’t think “Rapist/Murderer” would have been among the skills asked about on the application, but who knows?
For threads on US police criminal behaviour check T. Greg Doucette’s Twitter. He has separate threads for police committing sex offences, drug crimes, domestic violence, assaults/murder. I think he recently split the sex crimes thread into two. One for adult victims and one for child victims. Every few days he adds multiple of each.
Rob, that’s useful, but Couzens was in London.
I am… let’s say close to… someone who has their nose in the Met Police’s financial business all day long. If the amount of skullduggery that has gone on there is any reflection on standards of behaviour and ethics elsewhere in the Met, yikes. I wouldn’t be able to say if any of it is technically against the law, but it’s the kind of things that seem like they should be.
I appreciate that iknklast. While there are some issues unique to US police forces that make so many of them utterly horrifying, I’ve come to the conclusion that the phrase ACAB can be applied universally as a matter of degree, rather than any force somewhere being pure as the driven snow.