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following the Sarah Everard murder should have been reason enough on its own for Dick to resign in utter shame. If ever there was a time for sensitive policing, but it seems to be something the Met is institutionally incapable of sustaining. It can't even rely on individual police officers to behave in socially acceptable ways.

As a police service, the Met's had a terrible reputation stretching back, just in my memory, to the Miners' Strike, various demonstrations nationwide by the the 1980s peace movement (if you knew the Met had been shipped in, you expected trouble), and a number of Stop the City demonstrations in London, not to mention Jean Charles de Menezes, who died brutally as a victim of Met overreaction directly under Dick's supervision, and Ian Tomlinson, who was attacked totally unprovoked by an officer and soon after died in what an inquest jury found to be an unlawful killing. Investigations into both those last incidents were hampered by repeated blatant lies from police officers and the Met as a body.

Under Dick, this has extended to what should have been everyday policing, where women (in particular, but indeed, anybody) can no longer feel safe seeking out a London bobby for help if they're feeling vulnerable or in danger.

Good riddance. She failed upwards for far too long. I expect she'll end up in the Lords once the dust has died down, given the favours Johnson owes her from his time as mayor and beyond.