MPs rebuke police for ‘systemic failure’ to improve record on race

Failings have led to unjustified inequalities', says landmark report that finds little progress in 22 years since Macpherson

Police and governments have done too little to stamp out racial injustice in the ranks, with the failings being systemic and leading to unjustified inequalities", a report by an all-party committee of MPs has found.

The report by the home affairs committee was heavily critical of the progress made in the 22 years since the Macpherson report into why the white killers of Stephen Lawrence were allowed to go free, which blamed institutional racism"