From mass arrests to surveillance, confidence in the Metropolitan police is at an all-time low
By Nina Power, guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 26 July 2011
Can confidence in the Metropolitan police sink any lower? Even before the past few weeks revealed the possibility of their complicity in the News of the World hacking scandal, and the past few months their brutal attitude towards the policing of students and other protesters, there were many who already had reason to mistrust those who claim to be "working together for a safer London".