You’re 6x more likely to be stopped & searched if you’re black. Of those stopped & searched for drugs, a higher proportion of white people had drugs on them than black. That’s disproportionate. Better still, don’t search any adult for small amounts of drugs for personal use.
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Because people aren’t scared he’s going to stab them
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I think you’re making a racist statement about black people and knife crime or am I wrong?
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Blimey, how many packs of race cards do you own? FredM’s statement wasn’t racist....look at the knife crime featured on a daily basis...the victims and perpetrators. It all boils down to local knowledge of those who are most likely to carry.
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Local knowledge in some areas will point to the majority of knife carriers being white. Being black isn’t grounds for stop and search. This man standing in front of you may be young, he may be black but without some other evidence, you cannot legally stop & search him.
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In SOME areas. That’s where local knowledge of the ground and the little sweethearts that inhabit it is essential. Make their lives difficult before politicians complete their aim of making Policing nigh on impossible, esp the way the law abiding public want it done.
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Did I mention I was a police officer, for over 30 years, including 10 years operational on the street?
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Only ten years? Mmmm.......I beat that by 15. Try again.
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So let me get this right Paddick. Where the population of a London Borough is 78% Black or Asian, you want me to discriminate, and try and stop and search (with sufficient grounds) White people to balance the books. What a complete Doughnut you were, and still are.
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What about those stopped and searched for weapons?
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Don’t have those stats. Criticism in The Times was of drug searches.
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From your time in the met do you believe stop and search had a positive or negative impact on knife crime?
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Accurately targeted stop & search based on intelligence, suspicious behaviour, someone accurately fitting the description of suspect who just committed a crime, can have a positive impact. Blanket stop & search based on skin colour is unlawful, damaging and counter-productive
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That sounds very idealistic. I don’t hold the figures but would be interesting to know if the majority of people doing the stabbing are previously known to police or not. Otherwise this sounds wishful. ie ‘just committed the crime’ it’s reactive, not preventative.
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Sounds like based on 30 years experience as a police officer.
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Knife crime can only be tackled with the support and coooperation of the communities affected. Community intelligence can make stop & search far more effective. Damaging police-community relations is counter-productive.
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Perhaps they were busy stopping and searching those who were selling him the drugs.
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I was the police commander at the time. Trust me, they weren’t.
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Probably because he doesn't look like a mugger?
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The overwhelming majority of stop & search and the arrests that came from them were for drugs.
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