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Sir Mark Rowley and Sadiq Khan among those to speak on issue

Baroness Louise Casey has found that London’s Metropolitan police force is institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic. We heard similar 24 years ago when, after the incompetent investigation into the murder of Stephen Lawrence, Sir William MacPherson reported that the Met was institutionally racist.

Baroness Casey has called for a major overhaul of Britain’s biggest police force.

Serving and former officers tell of racism, sexism and misogyny at under fire force

A former Met Police Superintendent suing the force over ‘racist and sexist abuse’ is calling for the Commissioner to resign following his refusal to use the term institutional racism despite damning Casey report

The chief executive of Refuge said there still appears to be a denial from the Metropolitan Police despite the findings of a damning report.

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”.