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mark occomore
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK
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Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 5:20 pm Post subject: Stop And Search Figures Up |
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Police stop and searches increased by 9% to nearly a million in 2006-7, with black people seven times as likely to be stopped as white people.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7495075.stm
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gfloyd
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 4861 Location: Here, There, Everywhere.
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Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 5:31 pm Post subject: Re: Stop And Search Figures Up |
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mark occomore wrote: | My comments will be kept to myself. I'm sure some of you will be the same? |
That will be an interesting thread then? _________________ His name was ernie ........ and he drove the fastest milk cart in the west..... |
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johnump
Joined: 30 Mar 2008 Posts: 172 Location: Location Location
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Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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As long as the officers are using the powers with no prejudice then no problems. Just happens to be that the officers suspect black people to be carrying drugs etc therefore search them. The media will spin the statistics whichever way it wants them to look.
And Marc don't hold back your thoughts, let them be known otherwise the world would be pretty dull. Evoke discussion. _________________
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mark occomore
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK
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Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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This country wasn't really made to be multicultural. I think the behavior of those who have been welcomed into the UK have treated it badly whether they were born here or not there families came into the UK and they should have started to respect our rules.
I'm sorry they can't turn around and blame us for their mistakes. |
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Gnasty Gnome
Joined: 28 Jul 2007 Posts: 313 Location: West Wales
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Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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No doubt there'll be a load of bleating from Liberty and the usual suspects about police racism. They tend to overlook the simple fact that most stop and searches take place in inner-city areas which have a predominantly black or Asian population.
QED. |
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