It does matter if I'm Black or white!

[Troll]

However I still believe that targeting any group is wrong. Police should target people according to their behaviour.

So you would see no value in say Airport security targeting certain groups of people prior to boarding ?

[escapeUK]

I suspect this is a minority in the Police but how do we stamp it out?

Get blacks to stop committing a disproportionate amount of crime, then there will be no advantage to disproportionately stop them. Hope that helps.

[vetran]

Get blacks to stop committing a disproportionate amount of crime, then there will be no advantage to disproportionately stop them. Hope that helps.

It doesn't. Certain black people commit crime, many don't.

I may be wrong but the portrayed social class of the complaining stopped people doesn't reflect the likelehood of comitting crime.


If the people stopped looked like P.Diddy and drove a range rover then its reasonable to suspect they might be involved in drugs, if they are wearing a Burton suit and driving an old Volvo its less likely, that seems to be the issue they are stopping the Volvo drivers to make up the numbers or to be bloody minded.

[northernladuk]

So we know how many times black men get stopped v others. I wonder what the ratio of offenses found are.

They also need to compare the ratios of white people stopped in gun ridden, poor council estates as well... and the ratio of white to black people living in these areas etc...

It's a minefield and just quoting how many times a black guy gets stopped is useless.

To be fair if they did release these figures and it was still disproportional then yes they should do something about it but I bet it isn't as racist as he thinks.

[vetran]

To be fair if they did release these figures and it was still disproportional then yes they should do something about it but I bet it isn't as racist as he thinks.

The earlier link breaks it down to Borough, there are wide variations and some areas have higher than I would expect stop & search (I would expect Croydon & Haringey to be top)


But in this situation we should be 'whiter than white'

[BrilloPad]

I wish I could be Michael Jackson. Black and white.