Half of police forces in England and Wales – including those which unfairly target ethnic minorities – will no long record the race of people they stop and ask to account for their movements, it has been revealed.
Stop and account is a common power used by police to stop people in the street and ask them to account for their actions, behaviour, reason for being in a place or in possession of something.
But 21 out of 43 police forces have decided to scrap recording the encounters – which was a national requirement until March this year – to reduce bureaucracy and save money and time.
Figures from a Freedom of Information Act request by the Guardian show that five out of 10 police forces whose figures show they have a record of using stop and account disproportionately have agreed to the changes.
These include West Midlands, Avon and Somerset, Thames Valley, Sussex and Hertfordshire police forces.
Officers in the West Midlands – Britain’s second biggest police force – are seven times more likely to stop an African-Caribbean person than a white person, the Guardian said.
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Is there ‘an offence’ of – “Falsely self-describing ones OWN ethnicity – or -“Being white in a public place while heavily tanned & bearded,” – with intent to confuse the statisticians?
Lol
The self definition aspect is bo***cks anyway. What’s the difference between white British and white Irish? What’s the difference between Asian Indian and Asian Pakistani? It was the same country until 1947. Many people I speak to from visible minorities want to self define as British Asian or Black British. Where does Northern Europe end and Southern Europe start? What’s the difference between Oriental or someone from South East Asia? Don’t even get me started on the new DASH forms for domestics!
The whole stop and search myth was debunked years ago and is only perpetuated by the stupid (Guardianista types) of those for whom the myth provides their income (CRE/anything diversity orienetated).
The street population is also very different to the general population and as stated in many police blogs, PCs will often record BME stops and not “white” ones as a bottom covering exercise.
This country. The lunatics are now bored with running the asylum and are defacating in the manager’s office and playing with his free internet while the whole thing sinks into a quicksand of perversion.