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It follows the publication last week of a damning report by the Independent Office for Police Conduct which revealed what it called a culture of misogyny and racism in the Metropolitan Police Service. The report centered on nine linked independent investigations concerning serving police officers from the MPS mainly based at London's Charing Cross station. After finding several officers guilty of serious misconduct offenses, the report issued 15 recommendations "to change policing practice" in the UK. The murder of 33-year-old marketing executive Sarah Everard in London last year by a serving police officer, and the Met's handling of a public...

Starting off the music some women I was infatuated with in my fantasy world back in my youth and the reality slap to the face of my vanity and ego from the late great Jim Croce a short life with some great music left behind.... I fantasized that I was someone much greater than myself to deal with reality through decades of my life and wanting to be someone big can lead to something awful. A convicted killed said this when he appeared before a parole board last month.... "I assassinated him....because he was very, very, very famous and that's...