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“Devastating … A forensic account of the Met’s descent into a national
embarrassment.” – Guy Adams, Daily Mail“This book should be read by every
police officer, every politician and everybody who cares about law and order
in this country.” – Peter Oborne“Meticulous and passionate. Tom Harper has
written the most authoritative critique of British policing in years.” – Lord
Macdonald KC, former Director of Public ProsecutionsBarely a week goes by
without the Metropolitan Police being plunged into a new crisis. Demoralised,
Scotland Yard is a shadow of its former self.Spanning the three decades from
the infamous Stephen Lawrence case to the shocking murder of Sarah Everard,
Broken Yard charts the Met’s fall from a position of unparalleled power to the
troubled and discredited organisation we see today. The result is a
devastating picture of a police force riven with corruption, misogyny and
incompetence.Throughout this fully updated edition, which includes an
assessment of Mark Rowley’s first year as commissioner and the Met’s failure
to adequately vet the likes of Wayne Couzens and David Carrick, Tom Harper
makes use of intelligence files, witness statements and first-hand accounts to
explain how London’s world-famous police force got itself into this sorry mess
– and how it might get itself out of it. Read more