A damning report on London’s Metropolitan Police finds institutional racism, homophobia and sexism inside the force. https://t.co/rG05eMrZFB pic.twitter.com/UIMYDU54pI
— CNN (@CNN) March 21, 2023
No one has explained what “institutional racism” actually is.
However, even though I don’t understand what it is, I must say: I support it 100% and believe we need a lot more of it.
A lot more.
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.
Casey, a member of parliament’s upper house, found severe failings across the Met that required “radical” reform.
Louise Casey
“We have found widespread bullying, discrimination, institutional homophobia, misogyny and racism, and other unacceptable behaviours,” 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.
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 incredibly important we use this opportunity, one of the darkest days in the history of the Met police service, to ensure there is nobody who is in denial,” Mayor of London Sadiq Khan told BBC Radio.
If the cops won’t put down the niggers and faggots – as well as, frankly, the niggerfaggots and faggotniggers – then who will?
If not now, then when?
‘Today is without doubt one of the darkest days in the history of our almost 200 year old Met Police service’
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan spoke to #BBCBreakfast about a damning report which says racism, misogyny and homophobia is at the heart of the forcehttps://t.co/kLiR2WWUK8 pic.twitter.com/m79qihZ9PZ
— BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) March 21, 2023