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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.
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Reports of misogynistic behaviour by police and within their ranks have roots in workplace culture.
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The police must challenge and change the damaging culture that for so long has allowed unacceptable behaviour by police officers to go unpunished.
Missing poster for Sarah Everard in London, who was last spotted walking from Clapham Junction towards Brixton.
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Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick has reminded the public of low abduction statistics, but instances of sexual misconduct in public are still alarmingly high
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The more we use facial recognition, the more we see its limits and its risks.
The Yard are hungry for data. We shouldn’t feed it.
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Allowing the police unfettered use of vast databases of information will begin to tilt the balance of power towards totalitarianism.
‘Hurry up! I’m on duty in a minute…’
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A tattooed professor explains how the unconventional became rather, well, ordinary. Will we now see more on show in the workplace?
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An expert in criminology explains why you shouldn’t believe everything you see on TV – organised crime is still a very British problem.
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As the service becomes more professional and diverse, the less it can be influenced by boys’ clubs.
Cressida Dick is one of three top women police officers in the UK.
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Taking on a 45,000-strong organisation, with a budget of more than £2.5 billion would stretch the most seasoned corporate executive.
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The inquiry needed to put a sticking plaster on the problem, but instead used a ‘bloody great cast’.
Heavily armed: no ordinary Bobby on the beat.
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Policing ‘by consent’ in changing times involves walking a knife edge.
The Lawrence case has allowed black police officers to speak up about racism within the force.
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Reports of an inquiry into allegations that police tried to shield the killers suggest the murder has yet to be fully investigated.
Former prime minister, Edward Heath.
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The former PM is by far the biggest name to get caught up in the paedophile inquiry.
The Brazilian’s death showed a major human weakness.
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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.