Bad Orchard?

[drmorgans]

How have the Met, perhaps so many officers of the Met, got away with their abusive behaviour for so long?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63147341

[Spicerack]

I said they faced prosecution and imprisonment, jno. Which they did. (if caught)
No-one agreed with them 'getting away with it'.
Again, you're pointing out extreme cases, policemen who broke the law to suggest that was the way they all carried on.

[drmorgans]

Surely when an organisation is described as "institutionally racist" that doesn't mean there was the odd "bad apple" who hadn't been caught, but that their mates, colleagues, and bosses were aware and turned a blind?

[jno]

eleven out of 73 were convicted. So perhaps facing prosecution is no big deal when there's roughly a one in six chance you won't be convicted, and can just retire and pick up your pension.

(Just to be clear, the figures are a few years old. If anyone's got newer ones I'm happy to read them.)

[fripfrip]

eleven out of 73,that's a better clear up rate than they have got now for burglary.

[jno]

burglars obviously don't feel too challenged by the threat of prosecution either.

[Paigntonian]

Staggering. I may be an old Tory but the incompetence, unprofessionalism and stupidity of the police never fails to astound.

[drmorgans]

Dame Louise Casey sent this covering letter to the new Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley:

https://www.met.police.uk/SysSiteAssets/media/downloads/met/about-us/baroness-casey-review/baroness-casey-letter-to-commissioner-accessible.pdf

[jno]

not good, is it

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-63277161

[drmorgans]

I should have said that Dame Louise was commissioned to write the report about Met disciplinary processes following the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard by serving Met officer Wayne Couzens.