This is the full version of my Internation New York Times column on the crisis in British policing, published last month under the title ‘Britain’s Bobbies in the Dock’. I also wrote a subsequent post on the framing of Winston Silcott. In March, Britain’s Home Secretary, Theresa May, announced a public inquiry into claims that the Metropolitan Police had spied on a black family even as the force was supposed to be investigating the racist killing of the family’s eldest […]

Categories: Britain, Justice & Liberties • Tags: britain, irish struggle, lord denning, miscarriage of justice, police, police racism, racism, stephen lawrence, winston silcott