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Last July, amid a global wave of Black Lives Matter protests against police brutality, the Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick claimed her force was not institutionally racist. It was four days after the British athlete Bianca Williams was stopped by Met officers while driving to her home in west London, handcuffed and separated from her baby son. She called the incident “racial stereotyping and prejudice”. Yet regardless of the evidence of disproportionate targeting of black people by officers, Dick insisted there was no “collective failing” or “massive systemic problem” with racism in the police. There appears to be a similar attitude to misogyny in the force. The former Nottinghamshire Police chief Sue Fish – whose force recognised misogyny as a hate crime in 2016 – and the Centre for Women’s Justice lawyer Debaleena Dasgupta have accused police of institutional misogyny.
Who would want to be Metropolitan Police Commissioner?
Dame Cressida Dick’s career hangs in the balance – but it s worth noting she s the fourth commissioner in a little over a decade
15 March 2021 • 7:15pm
Dame Cressida Dick, the commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, is pictured walking to New Scotland Yard following calls for her resignation
Credit: Ben Cawthra/LNP
Who would be Metropolitan Police Commissioner? Although the highest ranking, most senior officer in the country –with a £270,000 salary to boot – it is a job that comes with perils and hazards. And plenty of them.
As Dame Cressida Dick clung on to her job on Monday night, she could be forgiven for wondering how it came to pass that the most switched on officer of her generation, and the first female commissioner in history, could have come unstuck.
This was the Met’s George Floyd moment. Pictures of police officers pinning a young woman to the ground during a peaceful protest have been beamed round the world on TV and social media.
No one died, fortunately, but I defy anybody to look at those disgusting images without being overwhelmed by a stomach-churning sense of revulsion.
What the hell were they thinking? Who authorised this heavy-handed brutality? Does the Commissioner of the Met really think this is a legitimate way for her subordinates to behave?
At the risk of coming over all Chris and Glenn from Squeeze, we never thought this could happen to a girl in Clapham.