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Police and racism

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lemongrove Fri 30-Jul-21 10:08:51

Yes, the stop and search programme is about stopping knife crime, mainly black on black and usually gang related.

I agree it must be rotten to be stopped more often if you happen to be black.
No easy answers if we want to stop all the knife deaths.

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Whitewavemark2 Fri 30-Jul-21 10:04:12

I have quoted the findings of the Home Affairs select committee.

Perhaps they have done a report about knife crime?

The problem is SYSTEMATIC RACISM. Not drugs or knives.

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M0nica Fri 30-Jul-21 10:01:51

But the biggest problem facing the police in urban areas is black on black knife attacks and many murders www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-news/6-more-fatal-stabbings-london-20841707

How do you suggest the police deal with this immediate problem?

I am not talking about long-term changes that are needed. Noeither am I disagreeing with what you have said, especially about drugs, but drugs are not the main problem. Knives are.

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Whitewavemark2 Fri 30-Jul-21 09:54:58

The Home affairs select committee have found that the police have systematically failed to improve their record on race.

It finds that there are “unjustified inequalities” in the fact that black people are 9 times more likely to be stopped than white people. The majority being innocent.
Black people are more likely to be stopped for drugs, but less likely than white people to be using them.

The Prime Minister alongside Patel, has seen fit to relax the stop and search laws, section 60 1994 Criminal Justice and Public Order Act.

Under this act black people are 18 times more likely to be stopped.

Going against the findings.

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