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Last week, the media was transfixed by the release of <\/span>Louise Casey\u2019s review<\/span><\/a> into the behaviour and culture of the Metropolitan Police. For any Londoners who have been living under a rock, the report found the force to be institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic. The review was commissioned last year in response to a public outcry following the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard by <\/span>Met police officer Wayne Couzens,<\/span><\/a> and the conviction of his colleague <\/span>serial rapist David Carrick<\/span><\/a> for dozens of offences against women spanning two decades. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Casey found the Met had \u2018not protected its female employees or members of the public from police perpetrators of domestic abuse, nor those who abuse their position for sexual purposes<\/span>.<\/span><\/i>\u2019<\/span> Complaints about officers were \u2018more likely dismissed than acted upon<\/span>,<\/span><\/i>\u2019<\/span> and predatory behaviour had been \u2018allowed to flourish<\/span>.<\/span><\/i>\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

No surprise<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Needless to say, the Met remains dominated by white British men. On its current recruitment trajectory, the review found it will take another 30 years for women to be fairly represented in the Met workforce. For ethnic minorities, it will take 38 years. To Doreen Lawrence, mother of black teenager Stephen Lawrence who was murdered by a gang of white supremacists in south-east London in 1993, these findings <\/span>come as \u2018no surprise\u2019.<\/span><\/a> She said: <\/span>\u2018<\/span><\/i>It is not, and has never been, a case of a few <\/span>\u201c<\/span><\/i>bad apples\u201d. It is rotten to the core. Discrimination is institutionalised within the Metropolitan Police and it needs changing from top to bottom.<\/span>\u2019<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doreen Lawrence and her family suffered further trauma when the Met bungled the investigation into Stephen\u2019s murder, which led to the charges being dropped. Four years later the <\/span>Stephen Lawrence inquiry<\/span><\/a>, led by Sir William Macpherson, found the original police investigation was \u2018marred by a combination of professional incompetence, institutional racism and a failure of leadership.\u2019<\/span> <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thirty years on from Stephen\u2019s death, has anything changed? Seemingly not, according to the Casey Review. So the next logical question, surely, is why not?<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The colonial roots of the Metropolitan Police<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

On the day the review was published, <\/span>academic Kehinde Andrews tweeted<\/span><\/a>: \u2018It\u2019s only news that the Met Police are institutionally racist if you haven\u2019t been paying attention for the past seventy years\u2019<\/span>.<\/span><\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a valid point, but I think we need to look even further back in time. In the early 1800s, when the British Empire occupied Ireland, then-Irish Secretary Sir Robert Peel became concerned about Irish resistance to colonial rule. He <\/span>devised a plan<\/span><\/a> to quell social unrest and normalise the presence of British intelligence-gathering throughout towns and villages across Ireland. The <\/span>Royal Irish Constabulary<\/span><\/a> was a military-style police force, set up to curb unrest and enforce obedience to the Crown. It was never designed to protect ordinary Irish people from crime. The ultimate goal of the RIC was to protect the financial interests of the British Empire, and it did so very effectively. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If they recognised institutional racism as a concept, they\u2019d have to admit their indefensible failure to tackle it<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was so successful that Sir Robert Peel adopted the same model when he set up the <\/span>Metropolitan Police in London in 1829.<\/span><\/a> The <\/span>repeal of the Combinations Act<\/span><\/a> five years earlier allowed English workers to collectively organise, and the ruling class wanted to find a way to suppress and control these workers, whose cheap labour they relied upon. Adopting the policing model that Sir Robert Peel had successfully tested in Ireland was the best way to protect the financial interests of the ruling class. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unshakeable roots<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Now, nearly 200 years later, a cascade of official reviews has shown that the Metropolitan Police cannot shake its colonial roots. The idea that the Met is part of a legitimate \u2018criminal justice system\u2019, designed to keep our communities safe by protecting victims of crime and punishing perpetrators, simply doesn\u2019t stand up. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a patriarchal society, an institution that was set up to protect private property and wealth could never be relied on to safeguard female rape victims and prosecute their perpetrators: when this happens, it is a fluke of the system, not a predictable outcome. The rape <\/span>conviction rate of one per cent<\/span><\/a> is not likely to improve while the Metropolitan Police are in charge. Similarly, is it really a surprise to anyone that a system designed to enforce colonialism, the exploitation of an impoverished racial group by a powerful empire, is institutionally racist to its very core?  <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As <\/span>Sir John Woodcock,<\/span><\/a> then HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary, told the Home Affairs Select Committee in 1992: \u2018What is happening to the police is that a 19<\/span>th<\/span> Century institution is being dragged into the 21<\/span>st<\/span> Century \u2026 the police never were the police of the whole people, but a mechanism set up to protect the affluent from what the Victorians described as the dangerous classes\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Responding to the Casey report last week, <\/span>Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley<\/span><\/a> would not directly acknowledge \u2018institutional racism\u2019 in the force, but accepted there are \u2018systemic failings\u2019 and \u2018cultural failings\u2019. He avoided using the term \u2018institutional racism\u2019 because he views it as \u2018political language\u2019. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea that the Metropolitan Police – an institution set up to further the political and financial interests of the ruling elite, that remains in many ways virtually unchanged from its origins in the 1800s – can exist outside of politics is truly beyond belief. It\u2019s unlikely that Rowley truly believes this himself, of course. But discrediting \u2018lefty liberal\u2019 terms like \u2018institutional racism\u2019 is yet another way the ruling class invalidates the suffering of minority ethnic communities. If they recognised institutional racism as a concept, they\u2019d have to admit their indefensible failure to tackle it.  <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Met\u2019s institutional racism is inevitable given its key inspiration: the policing model used to quell Irish anti-colonial resistance, argues Kate Bermingham <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":38511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1852,89,2538,244],"tags":[2647],"class_list":["post-34465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colonialism-imperialism","category-feminism","category-policing","category-race-racism","tag-kate-bermingham"],"yoast_head":"\nThe colonial roots of the Metropolitan Police - Red Pepper<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The institutional racism and colonial roots of the Metropolitan Police: the model was used to quell Irish anti-colonial resistance.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rpdev2023.redpepper.org.uk\/law-police-justice\/policing\/casey-report-ireland-london-colonial-roots-of-the-met-police\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The colonial roots of the Metropolitan Police - 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