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Police service rapped over Race Relations
Posted on Mon 15 Mar 2010
Greater Manchester Police has been warned it could face legal action for its use of stop-and-search powers.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission�s found several forces across the country are disproportionately targeting people of Black or Asian origin.� Greater Manchester was found to have a large excess of stops for black people.
Not only may this break Race Relations law, the Commission says there is little evidence this reduces crime.
Across England and Wales there were 22 stops and searches per 1,000 people in 2007/08. Breaking this down for the different ethnic groups it reveals that the black population had the highest rate of stop and search at over 110 per 1,000; the rate for Asian people was over 30 per 1,000, and it was 17 per 1,000 for white people.
If black people were stopped and searched at the same rate as white people in 2007/2008, there would have be around 25,000 stops and searches of black people. Instead, there were over 170,000.
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