Sozzinski (Not 'Probable Spam')

When DEI Replaces Medicine. Three Dead In Nottingham. The NHS Called It Reducing Inequality. In May 2020 Valdo Calocane attempted to break into a neighbour's flat during a psychotic episode. Mental health professionals decided not to section him. They cited the over representation of young black males in detention. Hours later he attempted to break into another neighbour's flat. A woman was so frightened she jumped from a window and broke her spine. In June 2023 he stabbed Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates to death on the streets of Nottingham. A Care Quality Commission representative visited the secure ward where Calocane was treated shortly before the killings. Standing on a ward housing twenty patients who had all committed serious offences the representative told the doctor words to the effect of we all know half of these people shouldn't be here. You're doing wrong keeping these people locked up, and that goes particularly for the black patients. The CQC subsequently noted that opportunities to stop Calocane were missed. Prof Sir Robin Murray, one of the world's leading researchers in psychosis at King's College London, said the pressure to reduce black sectioning rates is akin to saying that it's very unfortunate that so many black patients are having treatment for prostate cancer, so we should decrease the number having operations. Black people have an increased risk of sickle cell anaemia and prostate cancer. Nobody calls urologists racist. A doctor said once a patient has psychosis, we shouldn't perform sociology, we should perform medicine. Nine current and former NHS psychiatrists told the Telegraph they had been encouraged to limit the number of black patients they section to avoid over representation. Team members questioned sectioning decisions warning it could be construed as racism. One senior professor put it precisely. You are seen as failing if you admit a black person on a section. Admit a white person and it's clear they are very ill and needed it. Frustrated doctors said DEI had become an industry, with trusts employing diversity leads who had a financial incentive to allege racism in sectioning decisions. Lord Sewell chaired the 2020 Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities. His central finding was precise and simple. Racial disparities are not automatically evidence of racism. Disparity and discrimination are not the same thing. The Commission concluded that the evidence does not support claims of discrimination within psychiatry. The challenge was convincing vulnerable people in ethnic minorities that mental healthcare is neither a threat nor a punishment but something genuinely helpful. The progressive establishment denounced the report as a whitewash. Activist groups and public sector unions attacked it. Media outlets amplified the outrage. Several commissioners were vilified online and professionally punished. The University of Nottingham rescinded the honorary doctorate it had awarded Sewell for his work in education. They said the report was too controversial. Calocane was also a Nottingham student. It was there that he first experienced hallucinations. Emma Webber, whose son Barnaby was one of three people Calocane killed, told the Nottingham Inquiry that police and mental health services were spending far too much time worrying about discrimination and segregation and doing the wrong thing because somebody's of a certain colour or certain religion. If you're dangerous, you're dangerous, and it does not matter what colour you are or where you're from. Sewell's closing observation is the verdict on all of it. When identity politics replaces evidence the consequences are not just intellectual. Sometimes they are deadly. Barnaby Webber. Grace O'Malley-Kumar. Ian Coates. Henry Nowak. Different institutions. Different victims. The same cause. "Calocane was also a Nottingham student. It was there that he first experienced hallucinations."