Major Met Police review finds anti-black racism is ‘baked’ into the force

Racial discrimination against black people is ‘baked’ into the culture at the Metropolitan Police, an independent review has found.

Led by Dr Shereen Daniels, the report surveyed internal documents spanning 40 years relating to the treatment of black officers, staff and members of the public.

‘Anti-black outcomes in policing are not random’, it concluded. ‘They have been built in.’

Commissioned from the consultancy HR Rewired, the review found darker-skinned Met staff were ‘labelled confrontational’ while lighter-skinned ones were treated more leniently.

Force was found to be used more often against black people than white people and that ‘stop and search converts streets into checkpoints’.

The report also said the Met treats ‘blackness itself as probable cause’, an American legal ter