Will the Casey Review — the result of a 12-month examination of the Metropolitan Police by Baroness Casey — actually change the Met? There are signs that it won’t.
The first instinct of those at the top seems to have been to try to evade some of its language. Commissioner Mark Rowley has objected to putting the word “institutional” next to various other words that also seem to crop up a lot in the report: misogyny, racism, and homophobia, and to deny personally seeing some of its evidence. “You make choices as a leader, and I was spending a lot of time wrestling with Isis. The level of toxicity that Louise calls out, didn’t see it”, he said.
