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Originally Posted by Cherie

The Mayor is blaming police cuts, but stop and search was cut due to racial profiling now alot of people who spoke out against stop and search are arguing for its return, the Mayor has been very silent in the issue and hasn’t been to any of the areas where many of the crimes are taking place, and I haven’t seen him on any local news programme for weeks

The mayor is really quite conspicuously absent and it's really bad form I think. He should be speaking up, it's part of his job.