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.
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