A landmark report in 1999 concluded that the police were institutionally racist, but the new action plan fails to acknowledge it.
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The structural and cultural challenges that have long plagued the Met Police will take more than a new commissioner to solve.
Reports of misogynistic behaviour by police and within their ranks have roots in workplace culture.
The police must challenge and change the damaging culture that for so long has allowed unacceptable behaviour by police officers to go unpunished.
Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick has reminded the public of low abduction statistics, but instances of sexual misconduct in public are still alarmingly high
The more we use facial recognition, the more we see its limits and its risks.
Allowing the police unfettered use of vast databases of information will begin to tilt the balance of power towards totalitarianism.
A tattooed professor explains how the unconventional became rather, well, ordinary. Will we now see more on show in the workplace?
An expert in criminology explains why you shouldn’t believe everything you see on TV – organised crime is still a very British problem.
As the service becomes more professional and diverse, the less it can be influenced by boys’ clubs.
Taking on a 45,000-strong organisation, with a budget of more than £2.5 billion would stretch the most seasoned corporate executive.
The inquiry needed to put a sticking plaster on the problem, but instead used a ‘bloody great cast’.
Policing ‘by consent’ in changing times involves walking a knife edge.
Reports of an inquiry into allegations that police tried to shield the killers suggest the murder has yet to be fully investigated.
The former PM is by far the biggest name to get caught up in the paedophile inquiry.
The death of the Brazilian electrician at the hands of the Metropolitan Police was a notorious case of mistaken identity. The same thing would probably happen today.
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Professor of Health and Social Policy, University of Liverpool
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Director, Universities' Police Science Institute, Cardiff University
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Associate Professor in Criminal Law, Durham University
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Professor in Criminology, University of Essex
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Research Fellow, University of Stirling
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Professor of Criminology, University of Sheffield
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Practitioner Fellow in Policing, Liverpool John Moores University
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Chair of the Policing Institute for the Eastern Region, Anglia Ruskin University
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Visiting Research Fellow in Criminology, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Associate Professor in 20th Century British History, University of Warwick
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Sheffield Hallam University
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Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Media Arts and Technology, Solent University
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Professor of Management, Brunel University London
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Honorary Professor Human Resource Development, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Dphil student in Criminology at the University of Oxford, University of Oxford
