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The Met hired rapists because vetting collapsed. Not because of diversity. A case study in how selective framing turns a policing scandal into a culture-war narrative.

Photo by Matt Brown This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. I woke up recently to a Times headline: “Crime spree by Met Police officers waved through in diversity push.” As you can imagine, a headline like that got my spidey senses tingling! The article began: “A diversity panel at Britain’s biggest police force overturned vetting refusals, which led to rogue officers and staff committing rapes, assault…
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West Country Voices broke the news in on Wednesday, January 28, 2026.
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