Endemic, systemic racism in authorities

It is not only the US police and US government who have problems with systemic, endemic racism:

The brother of someone close to me left the UK police years ago because of their racism, and I have now read an interview with a man who left the WA police because of their racism - violent racism, also found in other police forces. In fact, the situation is so bad that we have been described as "'choosing to invest' in hurting Indigenous kids". 

These problems were also a key part of Australia's grilling last night as part of our submission for the third Universal  Periodic  Review on human rights before the UN's Human  Rights  Council (which I will write about in due course - and most of the questions we were asked were, in my opinion, quite valid).

It's not enough to say these problems with racism aren't acceptable and focus on improved accountability, transparency and education of police - vitally important thought those are: the entirety of Australian society needs to be taught how to be anti-racist - which is an active reversal of centuries of social engineering by bigotted elites, and we need also to actively reverse the problems of toxic masculinity and "white male effect" (which I now consider behind many OHS, workplace culture, and societally destructive [such as binge drinking] problems), and to address the issue of the legacy of abusive, inappropriate leaders of organisations (many current leaders are well aware of the need to be inclusive, although they have not yet reached the stage of being stewards of company resources yet [see also here], but they've inherited problem situations and cultures amongst too many older [and some younger] managers). Following human rights activism, the rise of activist shareholders will play a key role in changing corporate culture, and that will start to influence thinking on leadership - including in governmental organisations. 

As that will be a slow process, it needs to be paralleled by continued human rights activism, and that includes media articles such as those I've linked to: bigots everywhere, not only in police and child services, need to have some consciousness  raising and to be held accountable for their hate - including unconscious hate (it is far too strong to be called unconscious bias).

PS - see this, from Human Rights Watch, this, and this.