Anti-black discrimination ‘baked’ into Metropolitan Police, damning review warns
Met Police vows ‘anti-racist’ transformation after damning report
- A new report, 30 Patterns Of Harm, warns that the Metropolitan Police's HR systems, leadership, governance, and culture are producing racial harm.
- Authored by Shereen Daniels, the review states that discrimination is “baked” into the Met's “institutional design”, drawing on over 40 years of evidence of anti-black racism.
- The report highlights issues such as darker-skinned staff being labelled “confrontational” while lighter-skinned staff may receive quicker empathy and leniency.
- Baroness Doreen Lawrence, the mother of Stephen Lawrence, welcomed the report but criticised the Met's long-standing failure to honestly accept and confront racism.
- Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley acknowledged the report's power and committed to further systemic and cultural change to make the force an “actively anti-racist organisation”.