Recent further embarrassment within the Met could define London’s Mayoral Election

By Joe Perkins

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It’s been a harrowing recent year for the Metropolitan Police. It was of course the riots that gave them the most difficult challenge in their history, as the bottled anger of a large number of young people was unleashed. After the riots, many of the culprits cited the poor relation they had with the police as well as their arguably antagonistic stop and search methods.

Despite most young people stopped and searched in London being of an ethnic minority background, the riots weren’t seen as race riots. This was even with the rioters being disproportionately black and instigating initial disturbances because of their anger at the death of Mark Duggan