Cops Stop and Search Black People More-But Find Fewer Drugs Than on White People
That’s according to analysis released on Tuesday 12th December 2017, which reveals the institutional racism at the heart of the policy. The research was released by HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services. Echoing every other study ever done, “It suggests that the use of stop and search on black people might be based on weaker grounds for suspicion than its use on white people,” it said. During drug searches the find rate was 33 percent when the person was white and 26 percent when the person was black. There was a similar difference in the find rate when the official grounds for a stop and search simply involved smelling cannabis—37 percent white and 29 percent black. The Inspectorate said the figures had to be “taken alongside the fact that black people are more than eight times more likely than white people to be stopped and searched”. And that they “require an explanation that the service is unable to provide”.
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