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Anti-black racism 'baked' into Met Police, review says

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    45% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    -38% Somewhat Left

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : Reviews conducted decades ago have criticised discrimination within the Met - including the 1999 Macpherson report that called the force "institutionally racist" after the mishandling of Stephen Lawrence's case.
61% : Baroness Lawrence said that discrimination "must be acknowledged, accepted and confronted in the Met", adding that racism was the reason why her son had been killed and why the police had "failed to find all of his killers".
45% : Discrimination against black people is "baked" into the leadership, culture and governance of the Metropolitan Police, an internal review has found.
43% : Dr Shereen Daniels said that systemic racism was "not a matter of perception", adding that "true accountability begins with specificity".

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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