For those of you who haven't seen it, the Lawrence report is available at
http://www.official-documents.co.uk/document/cm42/4262/4262.htm (minus
appendices)
Adam Tickell
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> Batterbury
> Sent: 25 February 1999 20:19
> To: crit-geog-forum
> Subject: "institutionalised racism"
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> Sorry this is not a job advertisement.....
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> [note for non-UK subscribers - Britain saw, yesterday, the publication of
> a report into the Metropolitan Police's failure to successfully prosecute
> five white teenagers accused of the racial murder of Steven Lawrence, a
> black teenager, in Eltham/Well Hall, SE London, in 1993. An accusation in
> the report of 'institutionalised racism' within the Police has hit the
> media, and the report is being heralded as the sparking point for a
> complete overhaul of race relations and policing methods in Britain for
> the 2000s. Emotions are running extremely high - Lawrence's memorial
> stone was desecrated today, and names and addresses of police informers
> were inadvertently published in the report. Chaos reigns.]
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