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OPINION - The Standard View: The appalling, chilling truth about the Metropolitan Police

Source: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

By now, both the police and public may have grown accustomed to excoriating reports into the Met’s performance, culture and standards of behaviour. Yet the force’s failings still possess the power to shock.

Following the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard by and painted a picture of the country’s largest force as institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic.

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