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by DanBC 3288 days ago
Not terrorism, but race was one small factor that caused the Rotherham child sexual exploitation rings to not be rigorously investigated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploit...

This was a long running set of crimes that had severe impact on the victims, and there were very many victims.

Investigating people before they are terrorists is complicated by things like human rights. But raping children is always, unambiguously, wrong.
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Brakenshire 3288 days ago
Those are decisions made by social workers and local government, that's a long, long way from the Met and MI5.
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DanBC 3288 days ago
Parent post doesn't mention the Met or MI5, and I'm not sure how the Met s relevant for eg Manchester bombing.

Those decisions not to investigate or prosecute were also made by police in Rotherham. Police were well aware of the extent of the criminality, and chose not to investigate or prosecute.

http://www.rotherham.gov.uk/downloads/file/1407/independent_...

> Within social care, the scale and seriousness of the problem was underplayed by senior managers. At an operational level, the Police gave no priority to CSE, regarding many child victims with contempt and failing to act on their abuse as a crime. Further stark evidence came in 2002, 2003 and 2006 with three reports known to the Police and the Council, which could not have been clearer in their description of the situation in Rotherham. The first of these reports was effectively suppressed because some senior officers disbelieved the data it contained. This had led to suggestions of coverup. The other two reports set out the links between child sexual exploitation and drugs, guns and criminality in the Borough. These reports were ignored and no action was taken to deal with the issues that were identified in them

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> Some at a senior level in the Police and children's social care continued to think the extent of the problem, as described by youth workers, was exaggerated, and seemed intent on reducing the official numbers of children categorised as CSE

etc etc.

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