Met Police faces legal action over "racist" Gangs Matrix database
Occurred: February 2022
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Human rights organisation Liberty and public safety non-profit UNJUST UK, represented by musician Awate Suleiman, accused the Metropolitan Police Service's (MPS) Gangs Matrix database of racial discrimination.
Liberty argued that the Gangs Matrix database discriminated against Black people, who were disproportionately represented on it. The judicial review focused on three key grounds: