Overview
- The 30 Patterns of Harm report diagnoses systemic drivers of racial harm in Met leadership, governance, HR and frontline policing.
- The review describes skin‑tone bias inside the force and says stop and search treats blackness as probable cause, turning streets into checkpoints.
- Author Dr Shereen Daniels says the analysis was wholly independent and built on internal Met materials and more than 40 years of public evidence.
- Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley welcomed the report, calling for further systemic, structural, cultural change and citing a two‑year 10% rise in trust among Black Londoners.
- Community and oversight figures, including Baroness Doreen Lawrence and the National Black Police Association, urged enforceable reforms as the Met prepares reflection, wider consultation and potential updates to the London Race Action Plan.