... report by Sir William Macpherson followed an inquiry into the Metropolitan Police's investigation of the murder of a black teenager, Stephen Lawrence. The 18-year-old A-Level student was fatally stabbed by a gang of white racists, as he waited for a bus in South London in 1993. The London Metropolitan Police failed to convict the killers. My objectives are to assess the importance and outcomes of some of the major key reforms established by Macpherson and to discuss how, if at all, the Criminal Justice Service has changed since the report was published in February 1999. The Macpherson Report into the Stephen Lawrence case contains seventy key recommendations for society to show "zero tolerance" for racism. It concluded that the police investigation was sabotaged by a combination of professional incompetence, institutional racism, and corruption. Sir William Macpherson suggests sweeping reforms to tackle these. He demands radical changes in the legal and judicial system and ...

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