Met police institutionally racist, misogynistic, homophobic

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How the hell do you end up here all these years after the Lawrence inquiry

Met Police: Women and children failed by 'boys' club', review finds

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There was a pice on Nick Ferrari this morning where they played an interview with the Met Commissioner at the time of the Macpherson report and he said he didn't accept the use of the word "Institutional".

Today with the new report he interviewed the current Met Commissioner who said he didn't accept the use of the word "Institutional".

But yeah definitely no denial.

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Six former Met officers given suspended prison sentences.

Met Police: Ex-officers sentenced over racist WhatsApp posts

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I doubt they only started speaking and behaving that way when they stopped being Police Officers.

"Judge Ikram said the risk of undermining confidence in the police was an "aggravating factor" he had to consider when deciding the men's sentences."

I won't be losing any sleep over them.

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wc98 said:

I don't think it does until what it's used for by the individual becomes public and the subject of a complaint. Had no one brought this to light nothing would have happened. I doubt this prosecution is going to change individual thinking/attitude. Just make people with nasty views more careful about where they air them.

I don't know how the law works but that's my assumption too.

If you think about it if you send someone racist abuse via WhatsApp "it was a private conversation" doesn't tend to cut it as a defence if the recipient chooses to make a complaint.

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I doubt people have much to worry about unless they're sharing racist filth with your friends.

A little more detail and an example here though.

Ex-Met officer guilty of sending racist message

I'm going to predict within a page or two we'll get "Is that all he said?".

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smn159 said:

There will be some who say that, but the point is that we should expect our police not to immediately assume that certain sections of society are guilty

If these posts are representative of wider attitudes then it's no wonder that there is little confidence in the Met to behave even handedly

Of course we should.

If you were black or brown or any other minority would you trust them to treat you fairly and impartially based on what we now know about them?