As Migrants Terrorize Britain, Police Wage War On Catcalls

Around a decade ago, when viral videos were just starting to become commonplace, a woman uploaded a video entitled, “10 hours of walking in NYC as a woman.” Like many viral videos, it wasn’t actually as spontaneous as it looked. It was the brainchild of an anti-harassment organization by the name of “Hollaback!” along with an ad agency called Rob Bliss Creative.

The premise, as the name of the video implies, is that a young white woman named Shoshana Roberts would walk around New York — “all areas of Manhattan,” they said — wearing jeans and a crewneck. She wouldn’t say anything to anyone. In front of her, someone would be carrying a hidden camera, which would capture all of the misogynistic men who would inevitably catcall her. It was intended to be feminist propaganda, in other words. You might remember the video, but if not, here’s some of it. Watch:

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According to the caption on the video, to her horror, this woman was catcalled more than 100 times in just 10 hours. And after releasing this piece of groundbreaking investigative journalism, the feminists who created it were convinced that they had a winner on their hands. It was being shared everywhere. People were horrified by the plight of women in New York City.

But very quickly, the mood changed. Leftists noticed that, inconveniently enough, pretty much every single catcaller in the video was black or Hispanic. There was one white guy who said something like “Nice,” although it wasn’t even clear he was talking to her. In any event, he’s clearly respectful and keeps things moving. He simply compliments her and continues walking.

By contrast, there were dozens of black and Hispanic catcallers in the video. And they went far beyond saying “nice.” One black guy follows her down the street for five minutes, staring at her the entire time. Another “person of color” tells her to “say thank you more.” Another guy says “God bless you, Mami.”

And you know what this means. The video was determined to be highly racist. NPR and Slate, among many other Left-wing publications, ran lengthy pieces on how problematic the video was. The author Roxane Gay, for example, wrote: “The racial politics of the video are [f*****] up.

Like, she didn’t walk through any white neighborhoods?” Never mind the fact that she walked all over Manhattan, which the footage clearly shows.

As the hysteria grew, the organization that produced the video released a groveling (and very confusing) statement of apology, which threw their own video under the bus:

We regret the unintended racial bias in the editing of the video that over represents men of color. … We are committed to showing the complete picture. It is our hope and intention that this video will be the start of a series to demonstrate that the type of harassment we’re concerned about is directed toward women of all races and ethnicities and conducted by an equally diverse population of men.

On Reddit, the ad agency added:

We got a fair amount of white guys, but for whatever reason, a lot of what they said was in passing, or off camera.

Obviously, one of the biggest issues with this claim is that everything in the video was said “in passing, or off camera.” So it doesn’t make sense to claim that the white people were “edited out” for that reason. Nor does it make any sense to state that, in the future, they’ll be committed to demonstrating that catcallers come from a, “equally diverse population of men.” After all, they just captured video evidence demonstrating, via a recorded experiment, that catcallers are not in fact diverse. So what’s the basis for saying that, in the future, they’ll prove that white people are just as likely to catcall women?

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They don’t have any basis for saying that, of course, because it’s not true. Catcalling women to the point that they become uncomfortable — sort of like playing music loudly on a Bluetooth speaker at the park, or committing armed robbery — is one of those behaviors that, from a statistical perspective, simply isn’t perfectly distributed among various ethnic groups. Even if you tried to stack the deck by conducting this experiment in a neighborhood that’s nearly 100% white, it still wouldn’t work. In fact, that would only prove the opposite conclusion, because we all know that a woman can walk through a predominantly white suburb not just for 10 hours but for 10 years and never get catcalled at all.

That was the real lesson of “10 hours of walking in NYC as a woman,” even though the ad agency would never admit it. They proved, rather publicly, that different demographic groups engage in catcalling at very different rates. And so, ever since the publication of this video, in the name of racial justice, Leftists have mostly stopped talking about catcalling. They’ve left the topic alone.

But as we all know, every lesson of history must be re-learned at some point. It’s sort of like the old maxim, “Never fight a land war in Asia.” Everyone agrees it’s a bad idea. But eventually, someone else tries again, to disastrous results. And indeed, that’s the case with catcalling. Once again, Leftists are trying to make a big deal out of it. Specifically, in England, the Surrey Police Department recently sent undercover policewomen out on the streets, in jogging clothes, in an attempt to elicit catcalls. And then, when the policewomen were catcalled, back-up cars swoop in, sort of like a drug bust. Watch:

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Well, they’ve convinced me. This policewoman is constantly being told by strangers that she’s attractive. And that’s a horrible, horrible thing. It’s hard to imagine anything worse than receiving unsolicited compliments, frankly. And indeed, you can just see the abject pain and horror in her voice as she’s having to process all of this. Last week I upset some people by suggesting that female cops shouldn’t be out on patrol because they lack the strength and other attributes necessary for that job. But I guess I should revise my statement. This is one job — walking around and fishing for compliments — that female cops are highly suited for.

It’s enough to make you wonder what would happen if some police officers are assigned to this detail, and they get no cat calls whatsoever. Would they be giving interviews about how happy they are about the fact that no one in the entire city, during their 8-hour shift, bothered to compliment them? Is that the conversation that would take place, back at the station? It seems doubtful, but at this point, we can’t say.

In any event, in the video, they admit that catcalling isn’t even criminal, which raises the obvious question of why the police are doing this. They explain that, in truth, they’re just trying to wag their finger at people who catcall, because catcalling is like a gateway drug to more criminal activity. Apparently, people who catcall are more likely to commit murder, tax evasion, arson, and so on. But even if that’s true — and there’s not much evidence that it is — it still doesn’t come close to justifying a police stop. If the police are allowed to pull you over because you might commit a future crime, in their judgment, then you effectively have a police state. And of course, that’s exactly what the UK has become.

But as it turns out, contrary to what’s stated in that video, some people are indeed being arrested in the UK as part of this sting operation.

The Telegraph reports:

Surrey Police said the approach was designed to protect women and girls in public places. According to the force, the [operation], which lasted a month, led to 18 arrests for offences such as harassment, sexual assault, and theft.

The implication, I guess, is that they picked up people with outstanding warrants for assault and theft, since there’s no indication that these officers were actually attacked during their runs. But what’s notable about this report, and every other report like it, is that we don’t have any information about the identities of the offenders. They also don’t explain what conduct constitutes “harassment” exactly. Instead, they simply state that this was a one-month trial for a sting operation, which has now concluded. So there was more transparency from a viral video produced by feminists a decade ago in New York City, than the British police are willing to provide about their taxpayer-funded catcalling bust.

We can all draw the obvious conclusion here. It’s almost certain that this particular sting operation backfired, just like that viral video did. They came up with this plan in order to entrap heterosexual white men who shout compliments at attractive women. That’s the great crime that British police decided to spend their time on — something that isn’t even a crime at all. In fact, it’s not even morally objectionable in many cases. And yet, in their bid to criminalize heterosexuality and lock up white men for non-crimes, the British police probably realized, to their horror, that the worst and most aggressive catcallers — the real menaces of the catcalling community — were not white at all. And therefore, this operation will end, and it will never be resumed again.

That’s not really a guess. This is how things work in Britain. For many years, the British government concealed the systematic sexual abuse of children that was being committed, right out in the open, by foreign gangs in England and Wales.

According to one recent report, prepared by UK government official Louise Casey:

We found that the ethnicity of perpetrators is shied away from and is still not recorded for two-thirds of perpetrators. … We found many examples of organisations avoiding the topic altogether for fear of appearing racist, raising community tensions or causing community cohesion problems.

With the protection of the government, so-called “grooming gangs” have operated with impunity in the UK. The normal tactic that these gangs used, as Casey’s report notes, was for men to target vulnerable adolescent children — “often those in care, or children with learning or physical disabilities.” Those children were then drugged, passed among various men and transported via taxis throughout the country to other clients.

The total number of victims is unknown, because most of these perpetrators have never been caught. But a recent estimate suggests that a minimum of 700 children were victims of “group-based child sexual exploitation” in the UK in 2023 alone. Roughly 1,400 children were sexually abused by men in the UK town of Rotherham between 1997 and 2013. In several cases, the police also participated in the sexual assaults. They also made it clear that they were extremely uninterested when victims came forward. Watch:

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In response to the latest government report on this scandal, police in South Yorkshire told the BBC that they had, “a dedicated team of detectives working on this case who have worked diligently to explore all lines of enquiry.” That was their response just a few weeks ago, in July of this year So they’re claiming it’s a top priority for them. And yet, just a couple hours away in Surrey, the police are busy trying to arrest catcallers. They’re chasing down men who honk at women, even though there’s nothing criminal about it.

Not that we should really be surprised by this. Sociopathic sting operations, in the service of extremely dumb policies that happen to target native white citizens, are becoming the norm in police departments all over the country. In Canada, they’re rounding up people who try to hike in the woods, and handing out $30,000 fines. In Australia, as we discussed a few months ago, they’ve essentially outlawed prayer. If you try to pray with a man who thinks he’s really a woman, or vice versa, you could face a decade’s worth of prison time. In fact, parents can’t even pray with their children, under that law.

There’s no way to make sense of any of these crackdowns without recognizing that the governments of the West harbor a deep and abiding disdain for the native populations of their respective countries. And these governments have realized that, if they can’t completely eliminate the police force and leave the population defenseless, then they can discredit the police, at the very least. They can turn law enforcement into laughing stock and eliminate its legitimacy that way. It’s the same reason the police chief in D.C. can barely understand English. In other words, the latest war on policing, incredibly enough, is one that the police themselves are participating in. Police departments can either realize what’s going on, and refuse to participate in the charade. Or they can continue to contribute to their downfall, one extremely ill-advised sting operation at a time.