Britain’s biggest police force is racist, sexist, and homophobic - can it change? – podcast

It’s been called one of the darkest days in the Metropolitan police force’s history. The Casey report into the force has finally been published – and it is scathing. The Met, created in 1829, was judged to be not only institutionally racist – as found by the Macpherson report back in 1999 – but also institutionally sexist and homophobic too, according to the report.

In more than 300 damning pages, the report details how women and girls have been let down, the “toxic” culture of specialist firearms unit and why public trust is in tatters. Casey outlines how violence against women has been de-prioritised and discrimination is “baked in” to the system.

The Guardian’s police and crime correspondent, Vikram Dodd, analyses the report’s shocking findings and tells Michael Safi what this means, not just for policing in London, but for the country as a whole.

Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

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