Key moments in police relations with Britain’s BAME communities since 1999

The two decades that have followed the Macpherson report have passed in a state of apparently permanent crisis

A failure at the top of the police and government

Published six years after the killing of black teenager Stephen Lawrence, the Macpherson report was intended to be a turning point in police relations with Britain's black and minority ethnic communities.

Finding that the force had a problem with institutional racism", the report exposed mistakes that allowed Lawrence's killers to go free and made 70 recommendations for reform.