the missing link is "obviously they are all in on it, either literally, or they are being paid off to cover it up". the befuddled "oh man I just cant believe it, isnt it Cruuuaazzzyy how something SO BAD got swept under the rug out of these noble intentions/cowardice/a weird result of british propriety-politeness-culture and class culture, doesnt it just boggle the mind that their particular politeness weirdness culture made them accidentally en masse cover it up" is, they obviously didnt. a literal organised mafia, a criminal organisation, is in control of large swarthes of the police, politics, government, finance, and they are running human sex slave trafficing operations as part of it. the big "oh man can you even believe that" moment is not that it all went on right under your noses and it was all this just, random, decentralized cavalcade of oversights and slip ups that all just snowballed out of control, a comedy of errors. its: there is a massive organise crime organisation that has embedded itself across all your public institutions, and everything you want to call oversight or lapses of judgement is actually: corruption. they are involved, they got paid, in either gass grass or ass. you know what you do when you have thousands of sex slaves and millions of pounds in drug money? you fucking trade sex and drugs and money for favors. its ridiculous that the "conversation" still just goes around the same loop every year, nothing happens. they keep releasing new reports, it keeps being the same thing "oh man I cant believe it, they let this horrible stuff happen because they were afraid of being called racist". reduces it to a thought terminating culture war slogan. it's an international mob running guns, sex and drugs. its mexican cartels, like you know from your funny american tv shows. you are mexico and the cartels control half your police and half your local governments