The recent revelations of horrific misogyny and racism within the Met Police exposed in the cases of David Carrick, Wayne Couzens, the Charing Cross police, the police officers who took selfies with the bodies of Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman, has a history dating back at least fifty years.
Today, Charlotte Kilroy KC, counsel for 25 women who were deceived into sexual relationships by undercover police officers, delivered closing submissions for the first tranche of the Inquiry in which she laid bare the misogyny, racism and corruption of police culture from the late sixties onwards. The submissions (summarised here) set out fascinating details of the contemporary culture which laid the grounds for undercover police officers to wilfully exploit women involved in the political protest groups they were infiltrating.
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