#431: Exposing The Police - Internal Review of London's Met Police Force

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, Documentary

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🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

What is wrong with the Metropolitan Police Force? 5 words: Defensiveness, Denial, Racism, Homophobia and Misogyny.

Prompted by the murder of 33 year old Sarah Everard who was abducted, raped and strangled by a London Metropolitan Police officer in 2021, the failures in the Met police force were scrutinized in a recent scathing report. This review is stunning and something everyone, whether you are an average citizen, politician, academic or law enforcement professional, should read and learn from, because this is not just about the London police, it is an indictment that can be applied to all police everywhere. Many people who join the police are drawn by a strong moral purpose, they want to help, serve and protect and they put their lives on the line every day, enduring extreme trauma in the process -- but many others are drawn to the job for the power, and the opportunity to abuse that power. This report can help change that.

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0:00.0	Hey Prime members, you can listen to Real Crime Profile ad-free on Amazon Music.
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0:07.0	Londoners and particularly women have been failed.
0:12.4	This review, born out of the murder of Sarah Everard, found that even the policing of her
0:16.2	vigil further damaged confidence.
0:18.5	But it also reveals the lack of faith is shared by many officers.
0:23.4	One says, rape convictions are so bad it may as well be legalised.
0:27.2	There are stories of rape tests being ruined because of broken fridges.
0:31.2	And a female officer who reported being raped by another officer who was then forced to
0:35.8	work with him.
0:37.2	Even as we published this report, there hasn't been a change across the whole of policing
0:42.0	that says anybody that's got domestic abuse on their record or anybody that has indecent
0:47.8	exposure isn't automatically removed from the ability to be a police officer.
0:54.2	So I think those…
0:55.2	You think they should be?
0:57.2	The report finds a bullying culture underpins the met's problems.
1:01.6	It tells of initiation rituals with junior officers urinated on and one sexually assaulted
1:07.3	in a shower.
1:08.3	It's ghastly isn't it?
1:09.8	You sit down and read that report and it generates a whole series of emotions.
1:15.3	It generates sort of anger, frustration, embarrassment.
1:20.2	It generates some pride as well which may sound odd but it's our men and women who care
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