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Broken Yard - The Fall of the Metropolitan Police (Hardcover)
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Broken Yard - The Fall of the Metropolitan Police (Hardcover)
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A searing account of corruption, racism and mismanagement inside
Britain's most famous police force Barely a week goes by without
the Metropolitan Police Service being plunged into a new crisis.
Demoralised and depleted in numbers, Scotland Yard is a shadow of
its former self. Spanning the three decades from the infamous
Stephen Lawrence case to the shocking murder of Sarah Everard,
Broken Yard charts the Met's fall from a position of unparalleled
power to the troubled and discredited organisation we see today,
barely trusted by its Westminster masters and struggling to perform
its most basic function: the protection of the public. The result
is a devastating picture of a world-famous police force riven with
corruption, misogyny and rank incompetence. As a top investigative
reporter at the Sunday Times and The Independent, Tom Harper
covered Scotland Yard for fifteen years, beginning not long after
the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, an innocent
Brazilian killed by Met Police officers after being mistaken for a
terror suspect in 2005. Since then, reporting on Scotland Yard has
been akin to witnessing a slow-motion car crash. Using thousands of
intelligence files, witness statements and court transcripts
provided by police sources, as well as first-hand testimony, Harper
explains how London's world-famous police force got itself into
this sorry mess - and how it might get itself out of it.
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