Police and racism

katie yes you are right, and there is one.

But b….d. if I can find it again!

Racism is a part of life that is tackled for some races and not others. People think Black when they hear racism, this needs to stop.
It is even acceptable to society as well as the Home Office/ Patel, when you look at the discrimination against Travellers two of which are distinct races.

lemongrove

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.

But the stats clearly show that it's white people who are more likely to be convicted of carrying a knife that all other categories lumped together.

Assuming you want the police to stop people, who do you want them to stop - those more likely to be carrying or those less likely.

Some of you may have read my account of life in Brixton during the 1981 riots. One of the main reasons for the riots was racism in the local police force and continual stop and search.

John Sentamu, former Archbishop of York, revealed back in 2010 that he had been stopped and searched 8 times. Even after telling the officers that he was a bishop the response was that he didn't look like one. Basically the officers didn't like a black man driving a posh car. The immediate assumption is that any black person driving an expensive car has to be a drug dealer.