In conclusion, I believe that the UK 's Metropolitan Police Service are institutionally racist to a small extent in the sense that even though have learnt some lessons from the MacPherson report on the Inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence and have tried to implement MacPherson 's recommendations into their system; they still have issues regarding to the amount the stop and searched on BME’s. However, one of MacPherson’s recommendations was to increase the amount of black and ethnic minority officers in the force, and the Metropolitan Police Service has done so to a small extent whereby they increased the number of black and ethnic minority of officers from been 2% in 1993 to over 4% by the end of 2008. The target has since been abandoned
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The US seem to be stuck in a continuous cycle of never-ending unjustified killings of African-Americans. It would seem like it was only yesterday that Michael Brown was unjustifiably killed as well as Eric Garner, another African American who put into a chokehold position and was suffocated to death last year by the police. The fact that neither of theses cops who in my opinion, unjustifiably killed two civilians, did not get indicted, shows us that the U.S ' criminal justice is broken and needs to be reformed and I personally believe that Representative Johnson 's Grand Jury Reform Act will not only help to restore the trust citizens lost in the criminal justice system over the last decade or so but also between police officers and BME communities. The fact that the police would be held to account for their actions would be fair and just, as every other persons who is suspected of killing a person, is. Furthermore I personally think that Grand Jury 's failure to indict local police officers for the killing of a civilian is simply a flaw in the US ' criminal justice system as judges are placed in society to make impartial decisions in pursuit of justice. So, I can now conclude that the U.S police force haven 't learnt anything from their mistakes and that institutional racism still
The US seem to be stuck in a continuous cycle of never-ending unjustified killings of African-Americans. It would seem like it was only yesterday that Michael Brown was unjustifiably killed as well as Eric Garner, another African American who put into a chokehold position and was suffocated to death last year by the police. The fact that neither of theses cops who in my opinion, unjustifiably killed two civilians, did not get indicted, shows us that the U.S ' criminal justice is broken and needs to be reformed and I personally believe that Representative Johnson 's Grand Jury Reform Act will not only help to restore the trust citizens lost in the criminal justice system over the last decade or so but also between police officers and BME communities. The fact that the police would be held to account for their actions would be fair and just, as every other persons who is suspected of killing a person, is. Furthermore I personally think that Grand Jury 's failure to indict local police officers for the killing of a civilian is simply a flaw in the US ' criminal justice system as judges are placed in society to make impartial decisions in pursuit of justice. So, I can now conclude that the U.S police force haven 't learnt anything from their mistakes and that institutional racism still