Broken Yard
The Fall of the Metropolitan Police
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Narrated by:
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anonymous
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By:
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Tom Harper
About this listen
Broken Yard is a riveting, eye-opening account of corruption, racism and mismanagement inside Britain's most famous police force. The book charts Scotland Yard's fall from a position of unparalleled power to the troubled and discredited organisation we see today, barely trusted by its Westminster masters and struggling to perform its most basic function: the protection of the public.
Barely a week goes by without the Metropolitan Police Service plunging into a new crisis. Steeped in ignominy and depleted in numbers, the Met is a shadow of its former self.
From the Stephen Lawrence case to the murder of Sarah Everard, Tom Harper examines the most notorious cases involving the Met over the past thirty years. The result is a devastating picture of a world-famous police force riven with corruption, misogyny and rank incompetence.
As a top investigative reporter at the Sunday Times and The Independent, Tom Harper covered Scotland Yard for fifteen years, beginning not long after the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, an innocent Brazilian killed by Met police officers after being mistaken for a terror suspect in 2005.
Since then, reporting on Scotland Yard has been akin to witnessing a slow-motion car crash.
©2022 Tom Harper (P)2022 W. F. Howes LtdWhat listeners say about Broken Yard
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Anonymous User
- 07-09-2024
Enlightening
Tells a story factually based without fear or favour.
The scandals and issues have all been reported. To have them in one place, in a chronological order highlights the issues facing The Met. The lack of leadership, ownership and general oversight is obvious and frightening.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Robyn
- 09-04-2023
Corruption Central
I have no idea whether the UK Metropolitan Police force has more 'bad apples', scandals, corruption, racism and cover-ups than police forces in comparable countries, but if only half of what Tom Harper has written is true, this mob certainly needs a clean-out from top to bottom. It's good to see the Daniel Morgan and Stephen Lawrence murders and cover-ups set out in detail, along with a number of other disgraceful examples. The heartbreak and despair of families whose lives are shattered by murder and subsequent police cover-up cannot be imagined. It's all well written and, despite a large cast of characters, easy to follow. Mr Harper does, however, fall down on one point: with respect to the Litvenenko and Skripal 'incidents', rather than investigate he seems to have relied solely on mainstream media sources for his views. Anonymous has the right voice for this book and does very good job. His accents for various characters are OK but I'm not sure that effecting accents for various characters is ever a good idea for a narrator unless s/he has a real gift.
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