StopWatch, a police reform charity that campaigns against the use of stop and search and which analysed the data, also found 10,450 cases of the tactic used against girls.
I expected this to be another fakecharity, funded by the government to lobby the government to do what they wanted to do anyway and give a veneer of 'the public's support, but it seems not.
Jodie Bradshaw, policy and advocacy lead at StopWatch, said: “We don’t think that stop and search is fit for purpose. There are other strategies which are much more likely to bring about fewer crimes and for people to feel safe walking in public spaces and in the communities where they live.”
As always, the mention of 'community' gives you a big clue to where their real interest lies...
The Home Office data also showed that police forces in England and Wales submitted 747,396 use-of-force reports in the year ending March 2024, a rise of 13% on the year before. Use of force refers to officers using handcuffs, batons, tasers, firearms, limb or body restraints, and irritant sprays, among other measures. Women were the subject of 18% of these incidents, with black women making up about 9% of the total, even though the latest census estimates they make up just 4% of the population.
Maybe that's because they can be relied upon to overreact and get violent in greater percentages than any other ethnicity?
Bradshaw argued that the police are more likely to patrol areas where a higher proportion of black, minority ethnic and marginalised groups live, and such communities are more likely to be stopped and searched as well as to have force used on them.
Police go where the crime is. That's just fact.
Deborah Coles, the director of Inquest, a charity concerned with state-related deaths, said: “We know all too well that the use of force on women – particularly those who may have experienced violence and abuse – can be really traumatising.”
She said the rising number of stop and searches needs to be understood within the context of “increasing inequality, poverty and criminalisation”, and specifically the crackdown on protests and shoplifting.
Some of the poorest countrie don't have a problem with shoplifting, so why do we? And let's not forget that shoplifters mostly aren't Jean Valjean stealing a loaf of bread...
I remember and not so long ago when we were monocultural, we lived in neighborhoods not communities.
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Your note on the use of the word "community" reminds me of the "How to Spot a Covert Marxist" page on my blog. "Community", "Common", "Council", are three c-words the Neo-Communists use to disguise the intent of their organisations.
ReplyDeleteNever "Socialist" or "Communist" of course, far too obvious.
It would be interesting if these statistics of stop and search of females, also included how many were found to be committing, or have committed, crimes as a result of these stop and searches. The racial characteristics of the offenders would also not go amiss, or would that be racist?
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