For. Crying. Out. Loud:

Times of London reports: “Police to brief Muslims before terror raids”

Police have agreed to consult a panel of Muslim leaders before mounting counter-terrorist raids or arrests. Members of the panel will offer their assessment of whether information police have on a suspect is too flimsy and will also consider the consequences on community relations of a raid.

Tigerhawk blasts the policy:

This is, of course, the single worst idea in law enforcement since Prohibition. For starters, why wouldn’t the principle behind it, if it can be said there is a principle, extend to all groups? Did the British meet with the Irish before raiding the IRA so as to avoid offending Irish sensibilities? If this concept is valid in the country that gave us our legal system, it is hard to see why American police shouldn’t meet with Italians and Russians before raiding the Mafia, Columbians before busting cocaine dealers, and a panel of CEOs before pursuing Sarbanes-Oxley violations. Otherwise there might be consequences for “community relations.”

Of course, it would never cross the mind of the police to consult a panel of ordinary Londoners, the past and future victims of successful terrorist attacks, to see if they think the evidence in hand before a raid is too “flimsy.”

As London goes, so goes the West. Think this idiocy couldn’t happen here? Why not? The feds already give airport security briefings and tours to CAIR. It’s just a matter of time…

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Related: LGF notes that “a new poll reveals that one in 10 British Muslims would not inform police about an impending attack.”