steering group, which was the independent oversight chaired by jack straw and with neville and doreen lawrence to account because what gets measured gets done. once that subsequent home secretaries took over and it was finally dissolved in 2009, and then austerity was brought in in 2010, the steering group oversight was gone, then chief constables were right there on homework about the recommendations and saying, "institutional racism is no longer useful" when it was supposed to be an aspiration to improve the internal and external elements of the police force. so forward momentum was lost, wasn't? absolutely. and more importantly, you then lost a lot of officers through austerity — especially citizen—focused cops, community cops, your safer neighbour teams, your safer schools officers. those lost connections with the community, and that is why things have gone backwards. so the look and feel of policing — in my estimation — reminds me of a pre—macpherson era. and that... that is a shocking thing to say. it is! but... the macpherson report was what, 1999? yep. and you are saying that the way y

steering group, which was the independent oversight chaired by jack straw and with neville and doreen lawrence the commissions to account because what gets measured gets done. once that subsequent home secretaries took over and it was finally dissolved in 2009, and then austerity was brought in in 2010, the steering group oversight was gone, then chief constables were right there on homework about the recommendations and saying, "institutional racism is no longer useful" when it was supposed to be an aspiration to improve the internal and external elements of the police force. so forward momentum was lost, wasn't? absolutely. and more importantly, you then lost a lot of officers through austerity — especially citizen—focused cops, community cops, your safer neighbour teams, your safer schools officers. those lost connections with the community, and that is why things have gone backwards. so the look and feel of policing — in my estimation — reminds me of a pre—macpherson era. and that... that is a shocking thing to say. it is! but... the macpherson report was what, 1999? yep. and you are sayin