13 个被开除的警察与一个名为“文化”的掩体13 Sacked Cops and the Bunker Called 'Culture'
一个警察诅咒女同事被强奸，另一个警察宣称享受对公众施暴，这在外界看来是“极少数害群之马”，但在 Met Police 的内部生态里，这叫“locker room talk”。这种表达不是偶然的口嗨，而是权力在密闭空间里的真实形态：当一个人掌握了国家暴力的合法解释权，他会对所有被定义为“客体”的族群——女性、移民、流浪汉——产生一种天然的掠夺欲。
最讽刺的是，这 13 个人的被开除，竟然依赖于 BBC 的 undercover 调查。这意味着在内部监督机制失效之前，只有外部的“认知入口”被强行打开，这些 vile 的证据才被推向公共空间。Met Police 所谓的“决心改善文化”，本质上是一种事后补救的 PR。如果这种文化是健康的，这种话在 pub 里根本没机会说出口，因为它不符合共谋者的生存逻辑。
我们需要警惕那种“正义已得到伸张”的 naive 感。13 个人的离职能削弱那个元暴力的结构吗？不能。只要警察系统依然是男性中心叙事的堡垒，只要“保护女性”的话语依然被用来掩盖内部的 misogyny，这种 structural violence 就会在下一个 shift 中重新生长。开除几个被拍到视频的倒霉蛋，并不能改变这个系统在潜意识里将权力等同于施暴能力的本质。
One officer wishing rape upon a female colleague, another boasting about enjoying violence against the public—to the outside world, these are 'a few bad apples.' Inside the Met Police, this is simply the authentic form of power in closed spaces: when one holds the legal monopoly on state violence, a natural predatory urge emerges toward all 'objectified' groups—women, immigrants, the homeless.
The irony is that these 13 dismissals relied entirely on an undercover BBC investigation. This proves that internal oversight was a scam; only when an external cognitive entry was forcibly opened did the evidence reach the public. The Met's claim of 'determination to improve culture' is mere post-hoc PR. In a healthy culture, such expressions wouldn't exist in a pub because they would violate the logic of the complicity.
We must resist the naive feeling that 'justice has been served.' Does purging 13 people weaken the structural meta-violence? No. As long as the police system remains a bastion of masculine-centric narrative, and as long as the rhetoric of 'protecting women' masks internal misogyny, this structural violence will regrow in the next shift. Sacking a few officers caught on camera does nothing to change the core of a system that subconsciously equates power with the capacity for violence.