UK police’s racial profiling rise rapped

June 12th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

According to the research from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), the number of people coming from ethnic minorities who had been stopped under section 60, has risen from 51% to 64% between 2008 and 2011.

Section 60 of the 1994 Public Order Act gives police the power, if they feared violence or disorder, to stop and search suspects at a specific time and place.

The EHRC’s figures also revealed that black people were 37 times more likely to be stopped and searched by the police nationally under section 60 than white people in 2010-11.

The commission said the police may be breaking the law, which is known as the public-sector equality duty and declares, “Any continuing and serious disproportionate use of these powers against ethnic minorities may indicate that the police and Home Office are not complying with their public-sector duties obligations.”

Moreover, the Commission’s data showed that section 60 may be ineffective in fighting crime, because under 3 percent of stop and searches led to an arrest, saying, “In England as a whole, only 2.8% of [section] 60 stops and searches resulted in an arrest in 2008-09 and this decreased to 2.3% in 2010-11.”

Urging the Met police to review its current practice and focus on “intelligence-led policing,” Simon Woolley, a commissioner at the EHRC, said, “Our research shows black youths are still being disproportionately targeted, and without a clear explanation as to why, many in the community will see this as racial profiling.”

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