Stop and search is inherently unfair, unjust and ineffectual | David Lammy Read moreIn 2014, when home secretary, May announced measures to make stop and search less biased, describing it as “unfair, especially to young black men”. It shows that all 43 police forces stopped and searched black people at a higher rate than white people. Whatever the intention might be, stop and search is a driver of discrimination,” said Shiner, assistant director of the Mannheim centre for criminology at the LSE. Overall, the use of stop and search has reduced by 75% from 2010-11 to 2016-17, a reduction encouraged by May’s reforms. A Home Office spokesperson said: “Stop and search is a vital policing tool and officers have the government’s full support to use these powers.

Source: The Guardian October 13, 2018 19:12 UTC