In the decade since the damning Macpherson Report, 120 Metropolitan Police officers have been found guilty of racist behaviour, but just one has been dismissed, figures reveal.
UK: Out of 120 police officers found guilty of racism… just one is sacked | Mail Online
From the article:
In London alone, officers faced 1,339 allegations of racist behaviour over the past three years, with just 14 of the cases being upheld.[…]
In many cases complaints are made by fellow employees after suffering derogatory remarks or overhearing unacceptable phrases.
Officers have been reported for calling colleagues ‘the token Asian’, using the phrase ‘the n***** in the woodpile’ and saying they are off to the ‘Paki shop’.
One Staffordshire PC was sacked after calling another officer’s partner a ‘Paki’ and then making comments about food in a fake foreign accent. In Bedfordshire, one officer was investigated after allegedly saying: ‘If you were being raped by a black man, I wouldn’t help you.’
See? There is not such a thing as institutionalized racism in Europe! If I had a Euro cent for every time I heard this, I would be sending each and everyone of my Tumblr followers a personalized gift.
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