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Home secretary previously accused police of ‘spending too much time on symbolic gestures’ on diversity

London’s police force has lost the confidence of the people it serves because it is riven with institutional racism, misogyny and homophobia and doesn’t do enough to weed out bad officers, according to a withering report commissioned after a young woman was raped and killed by a serving officer

Policing by consent — the Peelian principle of earning and maintaining the respect and approval of the public — lies at the cornerstone of British law enforcement. It is admired and copied around the world. But the Metropolitan Police has, according to an excoriating report by Louise Casey, lost it.

The 360-page report revealed a force riven with ‘racism, sexism and homophobia’

Baroness Doreen Lawrence, whose son Stephen was murdered by racists in 1993, said the force, Britain’s largest, is “rotten to the core”.

Met choice to depriortise teams tackling violence against women and children ‘symbolic of failings’

The countless victims of the Metropolitan police’s grotesque failures need radical reform unimaginable to this broken force, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Met Police isn't doing enough to protect Black communities and people of colour, who are far more likely to fall victim to violence and at least twice as likely to be killed by another person, according to The Casey Review

Prime minister says trust in police has been ‘hugely damaged by things we’ve discovered over past year’