@junesim63

A few years ago - around the Sarah Everard murder and suppression of protest - the focus was on the Met's sexism, and before that... Well, the fact is we've all known for years about the deeply chauvinist, intolerant, dysfunctional - in short extreme right-wing organisational culture in the Met.

I had experience of trying to change organisarional cultures in my work life, and it's very, very hard. The fact is that to 'get on' in such organisations - both in the sense of being socially accepted, and in being promoted - you have to embrace the culture, so it's self-reinforcing, entrenching, over decades. Anybody inclined to challenge it is excluded - most just leave.

And there's another context to this: the police's utter failure to deal with real crime, with detection and conviction rates at truly shocking levels - hovering around 2% for serious crime like rape and burglary. Law-abiding people are targeted, the real criminals are laughing.

The Met really has to be broken entirely up into much smaller forces with new leaderships, drawn from elsewhere, at almost every level of seniority - along with a massive effort to recruit new officers with socially open, inclusive and tolerant views.