Ethnic minorities nine times more likely to be stopped by Rozzers
 

"The Equality and Human Rights Commission (gravy train) said that forces that continue to “disproportionately” target black and Asian Britons will be threatened with legal action for breaches of the Race Relations Act.

The research showed that the Metropolitan Police recorded the highest rates of stop and search, for which officers have to have a reasonable suspicion of involvement in criminality.

In the south London borough of Wandsworth, black people were stopped and searched at nine times the rate of white people. "

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...-searched.html


Is this because they are more likely to be crims or that they tend to be out at night more?

it's because they are black unfortunately.
When I hung out with my black mates from school back in the late 90's we were stopped almost every other street when walking back from school.
My all white friends were never stopped with me.
make of it what you will.

that black young men are more likely to be involved in crime and so the police are more likely to stop them?

we can't be tarring an entire race.
I'm London-Irish and have been told of the persecution of my family in the 70's from police.
Does that mean we were all terrorists?
Stop them if you have genuine reasons to but the police didn't even give us a reason why they stopped us when we were 15.
continual stop and searches will breed contempt

Ethnic minorities nine times more likely to be stopped by Rozzers

It's because there's so *****ing many of them. 'Minorities' isn't even relevant now.

There is a show about to start with that statistic in the advert..


And then you see this black kid hood up and hat on cant barely see his face, giving mouth to the police...
Can see why.

Is it cos I is black, yo?!

No, it's because you have a shotgun sticking out the back of your *****ing pants.

I live in Fulham, South London where we have I think the highest stabbing rate and of coarse some profiling must go on but I know many 30 year old family orientated black men getting stopped.
It's a catch 22, there are knifes out there, they have to be searched but you have to be right in who you stop.

the police have a hard enough job without busybody quangos getting their liberal knickers in a twist. they would be better finding out why black youths get involved in crime and why most of them dont have dads at home or in their lives.

Only white people commit crimes - fact.

How very racist of you.

Only white people should be stopped by the police - blacks have suffered enough.

It could be due to reported crimes with suspect descriptions, It could be due to crime figures in the area show most crimes were committed by non whites. It could be down to the fact the people were acting suspiciosly (hanging around in gangs then attempting to hide themselves from police). It could also be due to a lot of other factors, or it could also be due to plod in that area (the Met) are still institionally racist.

Isnt it great when a government funded body only points out one set of figures to get a little bit of publicity when they know that they will have to account for themselves in possible future budget cuts, though they no doubt have access to all the relevant information from which a more balanced view could be produced?

I've lived in Burnley, its easy to see why, 90% of the black people who lived there were violent chavs...and I'm being serious, not dramatic

Oh, so I'm sure that you've committed hours, no days of research to compile that statistic right? You can't be saying something like 90% without some evidence to back it up.

Okay, 90% of the black people I met in Burnley wanted to psychically harm me and people I knew for just walking through a ethenic area, that good enough?

Though, thats due to the area and not the culture, Blackpool has much better cultured population

Nah, it's not good enough really. Not good enough to attach a percentile to it anyway.

What constitutes a better culture to you by the way?

A better culture meaning, I dont fear for my life when walking home in the dark? I'd say thats a better culture after living in the ****hole named Burnley

I'm not saying its all black people who are nasty in Bunrley, most of the population are ignorant bastards, what I'm trying to say, if thats the only exposure some people have had to other cultures, can you really blame them for being suspicious? (I personally am not, but a lot of people I knew growing up was) It's like Blackpuddlians complaining about Polish people (who have have NO problem with)

From the way you worded your replies, I think you were getting my theory of why people are racist confused with my personal opinion, I personally think everyone should be equal in the world, everyone deserves an equal chance of life, though of course, this is real life and that wont happen

nah nah ITS BECAUSE COPPERS ARE RACIST BASTARDS WHO SHUD BE OUT CATCHING NONCES AND TERRORISTS INSTEAD OF TRYNA FIND SUMONE WI A LIKKLE BAG OF WEED ON DEM

well DONT GO WALKIN THROUGH THERE ENDS THEN INT IT? YOU WOULDNT GO TO BRADFORD AND START BURNING A PAKISTANI FLAG WOULD YOU ? ITS CALLED ASKING 4 IT MATE!

Erm...last time I checked it was reffered to as "walking home from school"

So walking down a street is as insulting and as inflammatory as burning someone elses national flag?

This is Britain - not Kingston, Jamaica - the gangs don't own the streets!

nah course it aint, but you cant walk thru an estate wot u dont know and expect not 2 get hassled or robbed

nah nah **** THIS, THEY DO RUN THE STREETS BUT I BET YOU LIVE IN SUM VILLAGE SO YOU WOULDNT KNOW LUV, THE SIMPLE TING IS THAT U SHUDNT WALK THRU THE HOOD IF YOU DONT WANT TROUBLE