Sensemaker Daily
No independent review of the UK police – and there have been many – can fix the force’s problems without the support of those inside its ranks
After the murder of Sarah Everard, and some tone deaf responses by the Metropolitan Police, public outrage towards the force was at fever pitch. Like the murders of Stephen Lawrence in 1993 and the murder of Daniel Morgan in 1987, Sarah Everard’s murder and the revelations surrounding it gave a platform to much wider concerns about a perverse culture within the Met. Police officers and citizens began regularly airing allegations of a culture of sexism and misogyny in the police. In answer to the cries for justice, the home secretary and the commissioner of the Met announced they would launch separate independent reviews. But can these kinds of evaluations actually make a difference?
