You already know these people. Here's one of them:
Now, we all know data is not the plural of anecdote and therefore that imploring people to trust the unreliable evidence of their own eyes should automatically make one suspicious of the implorer. Police numbers are reducing, and this will have an effect on the police. The question is, what effect? Does Kit know, or is he investing undue Dunning-Kruger type confidence in the ability of his own hand on the tiller to manage the Met to higher productivity from fewer staff? What, indeed, *is* productivity for a policeman and why is it OK to import the language of business into public service in this way? I suspect from the language alone that Kit will take a reductionist bean-counter view (hours on the beat increased, miles covered, hours of paperwork reduced) which sounds suspiciously like New Labour managerialism with a different rosette on, and we know managerialism rots professional organisations from the top down, like a fish.
Boris Watch enters the canon. Welcome, poets.
