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.
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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And how many black youth have died at the hands of......black youth....with knives. Who are disproportionately more likely to be involved in drug/gun/gang crime? Let just stop searching them because it offends the liberal elite.
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1. We are talking about drug searches. 2. You need more than skin colour to justify a search. Being black is not reasonable grounds to suspect someone may be in possession of a knife.
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I never said it did. I just pointed out the elephant in the room.
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The elephant in the room in some inner city areas in the North and Scotland is white. Doesn’t justify stopping searching young white men without reasonable suspicion.
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Goodnight Mr Paddick, you carry on being a protector of those most cops know are committing disproportionately more crime.
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Goodnight "Opinions are mine and gained from years of dealing with disrespectful, lying, violent, thieving, robbing pond life." "Too many arseholes, not enough bullets".
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