Comment on Huge crowds take part in London march against the far right – live

wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• FishFace@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My recollection is that it’s usually about that level of disparity. I’d be interested in knowing who tends to be more accurate. Do the police have an incentive to underplay the numbers?

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  • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Only incentives I can think of:

    1. They didn’t police it properly for the size of event and it’s a pre-emptive defence. “Yes we only sent one constable, but it was only 3 old ladies and a Yorkshire terrier”.
    2. They’re under orders to downplay the size of protests that can be seen as anti-government.

    I know it’s a bit tin-foil hat, but I’m starting to suspect the latter. A number of protests appear to have had quite large numbers from footage (which is likely to be cherry picked yes, but should set a minimum number), but small number from the Met.

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