A Report Finds London police to Be Institutionally Racist, Sexist , Homophobic
How can they let it get so bad? By not listening to the public and assaulting witnesses. They arrest a witness and the credibility of the witness usually goes down because still whether in New York or London, the Police are not more honest than the public but thanks to the Supremes in Washington DC is less because they ruled that cops could lie.Isn't it time for a clean up starting at the top??
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By Muvija M
REUTERS
A review was commissioned after an officer raped and murdered a woman
Report finds widespread bullying and discrimination
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LONDON, March 21 (Reuters) - London's Metropolitan Police is institutionally racist, misogynistic, and homophobic and unable to police itself, an independent review said on Tuesday, heaping pressure on the Met's new chief to reform Britain's biggest police force.
The review was commissioned by the then-head of the Met, Cressida Dick, in 2021 after a serving officer was sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a young woman, Sarah Everard, in a case that shocked the country and put a spotlight on the force's broader work culture.
"This report is rigorous, stark, and unsparing. Its findings are tough and for many will be difficult to take. But it should leave no one in any doubt about the scale of the challenge," Louise Casey, who led the review, said in its foreword.
"We have found widespread bullying, discrimination, institutional homophobia, misogyny and racism, and other unacceptable behaviors," the report said, adding "women and children do not get the protection and support they deserve".
The findings come more than two decades after a 1999 inquiry into the murder of Black teenager Stephen Lawrence identified institutional racism within the force.
DEFENSIVENESS AND DENIAL
Finding that policing by consent was broken in the capital, the review said the biggest barrier to fixing the force was the Met's culture of defensiveness and denial about the scale of its problems.
Met Commissioner Mark Rowley, Britain's most senior police officer, told reporters: "We've let Londoners down and we've let our own frontline down and this report paints that vividly ... I'm deeply sorry."
"It (the report) generates a whole series of emotions: anger, frustration, embarrassment... But most of all, it generates resolve," he added. He said the force's professional standards department had been "stepped up," and that with their help "we are sacking officers at a faster rate."
Still, he said the job still needed to be done.
"I can't say I have reduced the risk of a bad officer to zero yet, but every day we're rooting people out and we're making progress," he said when asked if there were still officers accused of crimes such as murder, rape and domestic abuse serving in the force.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said trust in the police had been "hugely damaged".
"What we need to do is now make sure that that won't be repeated, that we can regain people's trust and I know that the police commissioner is committed to doing that," he told BBC television.
The 360-page report said the force needed strong leadership, a women's protection service, and a new children's strategy, among other recommendations for reform.
"It's essential we use this opportunity, one of the darkest days in the history of the Met police service, to ensure there is nobody in denial," Mayor of London Sadiq Khan told BBC Radio.
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