Broken Yard : Biteback Publishing : 9781785908071 : 1785908073 : 12 Sep 2023 : "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 Prosecutions Barely 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