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The Disturbing Findings of the McPherson Report
"There is such a deeply embedded culture of discrimination in the Metropolitan Police," she says. "I was speaking to a black officer who told me that in recent months he was called a monkey and a banana was left on his chair." A South Asian officer tells Nula about how he was told he looked filthy and needed a good scrub, that he smelled of curry. She also hears an anecdote from a woman who has been serving in the police for years: she was told by a male officer that she was good enough to rape but not good enough to be in a relationship with because she looked dirty.
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