When is a vigilante not a vigilante?

The following is an extract from an article in Wikipedia.  It seems that the police in our country (one can hardly call them "our" police anymore) have no objection to working with vigilante groups, provided they are not English, or indigenous British, such as the Shomrim, or the other, much larger, Jewish vigilante organization, the Community Security Trust, or CST.

Clearly there is one rule for them (ethnic aliens, of whatever description) and another, much less tolerant, rule for the English and other indigenous British.

The police approve of vigilantes - provided they're not English

The Shomrim: uniformed Jewish vigilantes

Shomrim (volunteers)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For other uses, see Shomrim.

Shomrim (Hebrew: שומרים‎, lit. "watchers" or "guards") are licensed organizations of volunteer Jewish civilian patrols which have been set up in Hasidic and Haredi neighborhoods in the United States and England to combat burglary, vandalism, mugging, assault, domestic violence, nuisance crimes, and antisemitic attacks. They also help locate missing people.

Shomrim volunteers are unarmed and do not have the authority to make arrests. However, they are effective in tracking and detaining suspects until police arrive. In the United States, Shomrim groups are licensed and trained by local police departments and sometimes serve as a liaison between the religious public and police.

In Brooklyn, many residents call Shomrim instead of the police due to the former's quick response time and ability to speak Yiddish. However, the volunteer patrol has been criticized by the New York City Police Department for not always notifying police when a call comes in. Shomrim is also known to withhold information on suspected child molestors and Jewish criminals, in keeping with the Torah prohibition against mesirah (informing on a fellow Jew to the non-Jewish authorities). Shomrim members have been cited for using excessive force against non-Jewish suspects. [Emphasis mine, AE].

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Perhaps we should not be too surprised to learn of these double standards in our society.  After all, the prime minister, David Cameron, is himself one-quarter Jewish, while the leader of Her Majesty's 'Loyal' Opposition, Ed Miliband, is 100% Jewish, as are many other senior members of the 'British' Establishment.