Policing in the moral maze

How should the police be held to account without becoming politicised?

BBC Radio’s Moral Maze resumed this week for its summer series, and for the first show my fellow panellists and I discussed the police.

Around the country, the police appear to be staggering from one furore to another — from wearing rainbow helmets and “taking the knee” to failing to stop the Extinction Rebellion demonstrations; from the false “sex-ring”…