Who watches the watches? A response to Nazir

But they knew of other watches/teams they would not want to work [in].’ Let us assume that the review has in mind the Macpherson definition of institutional racism, used in the inquiry into the Metropolitan Police’s investigation (1999) of the murder of Stephen Lawrence: 'The collective failure of an organisation to provide an appropriate and professional service to people because of their colour,. [...] Afzal’s conclusion that the LFB is institutionally racist/misogynist rests on the fallacy of composition, which is to wrongly infer a judgement on the quality of the whole based on a fraction of its parts. [...] However, as Thomas Sowell has argued, it is an error of logic to assume that the cause of any given disparity between groups is necessarily to be found within the place where the statistics are collected.7 It may very well be the case that groups enter the fire service with already varying outcomes, leading to further differences later on, that have nothing to do with the institution that they occ. [...] For whites, the average percentile score is 77, while for non-white it is 67 on the former, while the respective scores on the latter are 67 and 61.8 These slight differences will have the potential to translate into large disparities in outcomes at the extremes of the distribution, irrespective of whatever racial discrimination there might be. [...] Estimates for the costs of the College of Fire & Rescue were arrived at by Home Office economists by multiplying the costs of the College of Policing by 31 per cent, this being the size of the Fire and Rescue Service as a proportion of the police.