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Unusually for this show, which normally focuses on long departed historical figures, today we\u2019re going to talk about someone who\u2019s still very much in the news. Until last week, she was the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, London\u2019s police force, and was the first woman and the first LBGTQ person to hold the rank, Dame Cressida Dick. Today, part two of two: we discuss Dick's tenure at the Metropolitan Police, the extrajudicial murder of Jean Charles de Menezes, Dick's cynical deployment of her identity to deflect critique, the spy cops scandal, the botched investigation into gay serial killer Stephen Port, the Met's dismal record on race, and the protests that finally forced Dick out.\n----more----\nSOURCES:\nRamzy Alwakeel, \u201cI Covered Stephen Port\u2019s Murders. I Know Cressida Dick\u2019s Departure Isn\u2019t Enough,\u201d OpenDemocracy, accessed February 22, 2022, https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/cressida-dick-resignation-met-police-stephen-ports-murders/\nAnonymous, \u201cGangs Violence Matrix and Black Londoners,\u201d Text, Mayor\u2019s Question Time, December 10, 2018, https://www.london.gov.uk/questions/2018/5242\nJason Bennetto, \u201cWe Are Still Racist, Police Chief Admits,\u201d The Independent, April 21, 2003, sec. News, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/we-are-still-racist-police-chief-admits-116145.html\nOwen Bowcott and Owen Bowcott Legal affairs correspondent, \u201cJean Charles de Menezes: Family Lose Fight for Police Officers to Be Prosecuted,\u201d The Guardian, March 30, 2016, sec. UK news, https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/30/jean-charles-de-menezes-police-officers-shouldshould-not-be-prosecuted-echr\nGraham Bowley, \u201cPolice Erred in Shooting in London, Report Finds,\u201d The New York Times, August 18, 2005, sec. World, https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/18/world/europe/police-erred-in-shooting-in-london-report-finds.html\nCaroline Davies, \u201cStephen Port Laptop Not Inspected until He Had Killed Three Times, Inquest Told,\u201d The Guardian, October 13, 2021, sec. UK news, https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/oct/13/stephen-port-laptop-not-inspected-until-he-had-killed-three-times-inquest-told\nVikram Dodd and Dan Sabbagh, \u201cDaniel Morgan Murder: Inquiry Brands Met Police \u2018Institutionally Corrupt,\u2019\u201d The Guardian, June 15, 2021, sec. UK news, https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jun/15/daniel-morgan-met-chief-censured-for-hampering-corruption-inquiry\nJamie Grierson and Jamie Grierson Home affairs correspondent, \u201cMet Carried out 22,000 Searches on Young Black Men during Lockdown,\u201d The Guardian, July 8, 2020, sec. Law, https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/jul/08/one-in-10-of-londons-young-black-males-stopped-by-police-in-may\nMark Hughes, \u201cSeven Mistakes That Cost De Menezes His Life,\u201d The Independent, December 13, 2008, sec. News, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/seven-mistakes-that-cost-de-menezes-his-life-1064466.html\nMarina Hyde, \u201cFarewell, Cressida Dick, the Met Chief Only Interested in One Thing: Ignoring Bad Coppers,\u201d The Guardian, February 11, 2022, sec. Opinion, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/11/farewell-cressida-dick-the-met-chief-only-interested-in-one-thing-ignoring-bad-coppers\nPaul Lewis and Rob Evans, \u201cSecrets and Lies: Untangling the UK \u2018spy Cops\u2019 Scandal,\u201d The Guardian, October 28, 2020, sec. UK news, https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/oct/28/secrets-and-lies-untangling-the-uk-spy-cops-scandal\nBen Quinn, \u201cMacpherson Report: What Was It and What Impact Did It Have?,\u201d The Guardian, February 22, 2019, sec. UK news, https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/22/macpherson-report-what-was-it-and-what-impact-did-it-have\nAlex S. Vitale, \u201cCressida Dick Isn\u2019t the Problem. The Police Are the Problem,\u201d OpenDemocracy, accessed February 22, 2022, https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/cressida-dick-metropolitan-police-alex-vitale/\n\u201cTrapped in the Gangs Matrix\u201d (Amnesty International, May 2020), https://www.amnesty.org.uk/london-trident-gangs-matrix-metropolitan-police\n\u201cR