The murder of Sarah Everard by a police officer leads to a wide-ranging investigation by London police. Hundreds of officials should have been suspended because of racist and misogynist behavior.
After a devastating report on the conditions in the London Metropolitan Police, the new chief has admitted serious omissions by Britain’s largest police force. “There must be hundreds of people who shouldn’t be here, who should be thrown out,” Mark Rowley told the BBC.
Louise Casey, who is responsible for the independent investigative report and sits in the British House of Lords, accuses Scotland Yard of systematic racism and misogyny. “Investigations take too long, complaints are dismissed rather than addressed, the risks to those who speak out are too great,” Casey wrote. White officials are treated differently than those with an immigrant background.
According to the report, less than 1 percent of the police officers accused have been dismissed from the police force. According to the data, since 2013 nearly 9,000 police officers and employees of the Metropolitan Police have been accused of various forms of misconduct. According to the BBC, there are more than 600 ongoing investigations within the Metropolitan Police into allegations of domestic violence or sexual assault.
The report was commissioned after the scandal-plagued Metropolitan Police had hit their all-time low: In March last year, a police officer kidnapped, raped and murdered 33-year-old Londoner Sarah Everard. Other police officers had taken selfies with the dead victims of violent crime and shared them in Whatsapp chats. Mark Rowley took over this year after the forced resignation of former London police chief Cressida Dick. He wants to introduce a culture change and win back the trust of the population.