Police on the ball as usual

[Troll]

Have we had many white suicide bombers in the UK?

Police on the lookout for potential suicide bombers in London stop more young white males than anyone else, according to figures released by Scotland Yard.

More than half of the 32,000 people stopped under the Terrorism Act between April and August this year were white. The largest proportion of those were in the 21-40 age group.

Scotland Yard published, for the first time, a breakdown of its stop-and-search figures into area, race and gender to reveal a picture of who is being stopped and where those stops are taking place.

There were 17,348 white people stopped over the period, compared to 6,755 who were categorised as Asian and 4,287 who were recorded as black.

[thunderlizard]

Fortunately not. There could have been 17,348 of them, but apparently the police caught them all. Hip hip hooray for the Peelers.

[wendigo100]

They've caught 17,348 of them? Good show by the rozzers I'd say!

[xoggoth]

When bombers were always white during the IRA campaigns, were proportionate numbres of blacks/asians stopped under the same splendid principle of avoiding discriminatory behaviour? I do not know but very much suspect not.

[BlasterBates]

actually there's a good reason, Al-Queda are actively and successfully recruiting non-Asian youths, sending them for free holidays to learn Arabic, and err well buld bombs. The German authorities just averted what would have been the biggest bomb attack in Europe organised by some recently recruited white Germans.

[Pondlife]

Seems to me

that it's more the police missusing the powers they have under the terrorism act than anything else.

[lilelvis2000]

The powers are more used on protestors and drunks in city centres... and old men at Labour party conferences.

[Bagpuss]

actually there's a good reason, Al-Queda are actively and successfully recruiting non-Asian youths, sending them for free holidays to learn Arabic, and err well buld bombs. The German authorities just averted what would have been the biggest bomb attack in Europe organised by some recently recruited white Germans.

Stop talking sense, this site is for half baked stereotyping and white van man talk. I blame the himigrants

[Hevra]

Stop talking sense, this site is for half baked stereotyping and white van man talk. I blame the himigrants

'String 'em up, Guv, it's the only language they unnerstand' etc etc

Hevra