The revew, the first to focus on the racism of the institution as a whole, found a culture and leadership determined to prevent real change
The “racial harm” the Metropolitan police inflicts on black people is “institutionally defended”, with its leadership and culture protecting the force from real change, an internal review has found.
The report by Dr Shereen Daniels, published on Friday, draws on internal documents and evidence, with the Met responding by accepting long-standing evidence of racism and discrimination within Britain’s biggest force.
Daniels told the Guardian the review was the first into the Met’s “anti-blackness” to focus on the institution itself rather than an individual scandal and concluded the force’s design “made it inevitable that racial harm keeps reoccurring”.
The report, called 30 Patterns Of Harm, comes two years after the Met was savaged by Louise Casey’s inquiry, which found it to be institutionally racist, a finding the commissioner refused to accept, while accepting systemic failings.
