The leader of Britain’s police chiefs has said forces’ legitimacy in black communities is so low it is damaging the effectiveness of law enforcement, as he vowed to change generations of strained trust and confidence. Everyday crime-fighting was being damaged, he said, with the issue of race being the continual fault line of British policing. “Our policing style is based on legitimacy and our legitimacy is based on trust and confidence of all of the communities. British policing was plunged into a race crisis over stop and search and use of force. It follows decades of race crises erupting followed by promises of change from police chiefs.

Source: The Guardian March 28, 2021 16:52 UTC