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UK: Statistics on Race and the Criminal Justice System – 2006/7

01 July 2008

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The figures show that black people are still more than 7 times more likely to be stop and searched by the police as white people and that Asian people are more than twice as likely to be stop and searched.

Police stop and search figures up (BBC News, link):

"The figures showed 955,000 people were stopped and searched in 2006/7 alone, an increase of 9% and the highest figure since 1998/9.... There was also a large rise in the number of people stopped by the police and asked to account for themselves - up by a third to 1.87m in 2006/7."

Law and order: Police stop nearly 2m for questioning in year (Guardian, link)

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