dollars worth of damage. and to mark martin luther king day, boston has unveiled a bronze sculpture to celebrate the life of the the civil rights leader, but its not universally popular. tonight with the context, the democratic strategist mary anne marsh and the writer and broadcaster chris morris. hello welcome to the programme. when david carrickjoined london s metropolitan police in 2001 he was already a criminal suspect in a domestic abuse case. the vetting procedure failed. not once but throughout a career that spanned 20 years. in the two decades he was an officer, later becoming a fire arms officer, the met and three other police forces received 1a complaints. seven of them involved allegations of criminal or predatory behaviour towards women. he was not re evaluated for 16 years, and even then incidents were not given the attention they should have been. today he was unmasked as one of britain s worst ever serial rapists, admitting 71 sex offences. pleading guilty t
it will affect people s confidence in the poice and it s clear that standards and culture need to change in policing and that s why i m driving forward changes to support the police and support chief constables around the coutnry in doing so. nusrit mehtab is a former scotland yard superintendent, a police officer for more than 30 years, who quit the force after alleging she suffered racist abuse and misogyny. you racist abuse and misogyny. are very welcome to th programme. you are very welcome to the programme. thank you for being with us. how is it possible that someone who is on a probationary period was not to more thoroughly assessed, despite being a criminal suspect in a domestic related case the previous year? one would have thought that fact would immediately trigger a red flag. fact would immediately trigger a red flan . ~ fact would immediately trigger a red fla., . ., , , , fact would immediately trigger a red flan. , ., fact would immediately trigger a red flag. well, abso