Stop and search ‘colour discrepancy’ laid bare

Black people eight times more likely to be searched, though white people were more often found to carry drugs

Black people are eight times more likely to be stopped than white people
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Black people are eight times more likely to be stopped and searched than white people, even though white people are more likely to be carrying drugs.

That is just one of the “troubling” findings on stop-and-search practices in a new report by the police watchdog into the legitimacy of policing across England and Wales.

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