There's currently talk about deploying "positive discrimination" within the ranks of the Metropolitan Police by fast-tracking officers from minority backgrounds for early promotion. I think it's time for a quick look at the whole concept of positive discrimination.
My view on this is that the idea's a politically correct nonsense. Dicrimination is just that - it's all a matter of how you look at it. What's positive to one person will inevitably be negative when seen from somebody else's viewpoint, or to put it another way, two wrongs don't make a right.
Surely, it would be a better idea to tackle whatever the underlying causes are of the minorities being under-represented in the police in the first place.