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Met Police report: Londoners react to Casey review

A government official found met The police will “tack down racism, sexism and homophobia in the way it treats its officers and how it polices Londoners“. She also criticized his failure to protect women and children.

Baroness Casey said the force must apologize for past mistakes, improve its accountability and restore frontline policing to the standards people expect.

She said the Evening Standard: “Many fine Met officers deserve a better Met. Matt can’t say no now.

“My report clearly shows what her problems are and what needs to be changed. This is the moment for the Met to take action.”

London’s Met police are institutionally racist and sexist, a report says

Here’s what other key figures in London had to say about the 360-page report, which has led many to call for changes to Met the police.

Sir Mark Rowley

Met the commissioner Sir Mark Rowley admitted that he should have noticed some of the bigotry at the time he was head of the counter-terrorism unit. However, he insisted he was determined to deliver the reforms needed to restore confidence in the police in London.

“I spent a lot of time fighting Isis [Islamic State] and terrorism,” Sir Mark told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. Louise’s level of toxicity [Baroness Casey] shouts, I did not see.”

He also tweeted about his desire for change, saying “the onus for reform rests most on us.”

Sadiq Khan

Sadiq Khan says Casey Report finds Met Police constitutionally racist on BBC Breakfast

The Mayor of London told BBC Breakfast that the report set out a “route map” that needed to be changed.

He added that he won’t know if there may be more rogue officers like Wayne Cousins ​​and David Carrick until an investigation is carried out.

“We have to make sure there is zero tolerance for any incidents,” he said.

Voices around London

Michael Morgan, a social commentator, tweeted: “Nothing in Baroness Casey’s report surprises me. The cancerous, systemic racism of the Met Police has been exposed.

“After decades of denouncing McPherson’s black community that institutional racism only existed in our heads, Casey presented the receipts.”

Baroness Lawrence, the mother of Stephen Lawrence, who was killed in a racially motivated attack in 1993, said the report showed Matt was still “rotten to the core”.

She told the BBC: “[Discrimination] in every form clearly raging in its ranks.”

TV presenter Carol Vorderman tweeted: “Police admit to being institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic. [The] Baroness Casey’s report [found]12 per cent of women working at the Met say they have been assaulted or harassed at work. Will there be criminal proceedings now?”

Jim Cole, a Meteotrade inspector, tweeted: “Waiting for Casey’s report to land and feeling pretty stupid and depressed about it all, actually.

“It’s really hard not to be defensive when an organization that you love and have worked for all your adult life is under such criticism.

“But it’s important to keep that feeling and think.”

Labor MPs

Jeremy Corbyn, MP for Islington North and former Labor leader, tweeted: “Baroness Casey’s report calls for a fundamental reset of the stop and search regime which disproportionately targets black communities.

“I asked the Home Secretary how her Public Order Bill, which gives the police more powers to stop and frisk, meets Casey’s demand for urgent change.”

Sir Keir Starmer, the Labor leader, tweeted: “I want to thank Baroness Casey for her report, which is scathing but important reading. The scale of change needed is huge, but as I have seen in Northern Ireland, it can be done. My Labor Government will lead on police reform.’

Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP Diane Abbott tweeted: “More than 40 years after Scarman and almost 30 years after Stephen Lawrence’s murder, the Met is still institutionally racist. This added to institutional misogyny and homophobia.

“Driving around the edges and internal reform did not work all this time. Met got worse because he didn’t face reality. The metro commissioner even now refuses to recognize the “institutional” verdict.

“Both him and Matt have to go.”

Ms Abbott’s reference to Scarman referred to a government-commissioned Scarman report following the 1981 Brixton riots.

Tottenham MP David Lammy tweeted: “Baroness Casey’s important report builds on what Sir William Macpherson found in 1999 and what I found in 2017.

“The Minister of the Interior must take measures to eliminate these deficiencies. Otherwise, racism, sexism and homophobia will continue to rot in Matt.

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