The 1999 Macpherson Report , an investigation into the murder of Stephen Lawrence and the failure of the police to establish sufficient evidence for the prosecution of the charged suspects , found that recommendations of the 1981 Scarman Report had been ignored . The report concluded that the police force was " institutionally racist " . This report , which did not cover the events of the Brixton Riots , disagreed with the conclusions made by Scarman
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Institutional racism
1981 Brixton riot