Including minorities at all ranks in police services is simply a method known as 'window dressing' that is meant to give the public an outward appearance of tackling the issue of racism without actually achieving much progress. "In 2000, an African Caribbean police officer, when asked to make plain his thoughts on the overall impact of the Machperson Report, including its policy initiatives, declared to me: 'it's just better for appearances'." (Insert article citation here) This policy of hiring minority's as a tool to strengthen the relationship between citizen and police is seen as nothing more than a myth that has yet to be proven or effective. It's main objective is "to better reflect the populations they are policing", (insert article