UK: Home Office: Statistics on Race and the Criminal Justice System 2008/09 (pdf) and Statistics on Race and the Criminal Justice System 2007-8 (link). See: 70% rise in number of black and Asian people stopped
UK: Home Office: Statistics on Race and the Criminal Justice System 2008/09 (pdf) and Statistics on Race and the Criminal Justice System 2007-8 (link). See: 70% rise in number of black and Asian people stopped and searched – Figures reveal that black people are seven times more likely to be stopped than white people (Guardian, link). Nothing has changed, see: Statewatch analysis: UK: Stop & search: Ethnic injustice continues unabated (2005, pdf): “Black people are nearly seven times and Asian people over twice as likely to be stopped and searched as white people.”