The author of a damning report on the Metropolitan Police says the force can’t move on until it accepts her findings of institutional racism, homophobia and misogyny.
In an interview screened at the launch of Black-led scrutiny group the Alliance for Police Accountability (APA) in London, Louise Casey said: “I didn't pluck institutional racism out of the air in my report. I was very careful to be absolutely sure that that was right. And if I hadn't found it, I would say that.
“I went into the Met on the Sarah Everard murder. And I think they thought that I wouldn’t find so many issues around race but potentially some issues around homophobia and misogyny. And what became really clear... is that as an institution, it didn’t look to see what the connections were. I think that speaks to institutional failure.”
