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Police searching whites 'for race balance'
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Police are targetting white people to avoid being accused of prejudice, it's
claimed Police are searching white people under terror laws simply to provide
'racial balance' to statistics, it has been revealed.
They are targeting people they have no real reason to suspect to avoid being
accused of prejudice, said terror law watchdog Lord Carlile.
But their tactic of 'self-evidently unmerited searches' was a waste of money,
a breach of civil liberties and 'almost certainly unlawful', he added.
'It is totally wrong for any person to be stopped in order to produce a
racial balance in the statistics. There is ample anecdotal evidence that this
is happening,' he said.
It is totally wrong for any person to be stopped in order to produce a racial
balance in the statistics
The Liberal Democrat peer and QC condemned the misuse of Section 44 of the
Terrorism Act 2000 in his annual report on anti-terror laws.
He wrote of cases 'where the person stopped is so obviously far from any known
terrorism profile that, realistically, there is not the slightest possibility
of him/her being a terrorist, and no other feature to justify the stop'.
Later, he told the BBC: 'If, for example, 50 blonde women are stopped who fall
nowhere near any intelligence-led terrorism profile, it's a gross invasion of
the civil liberties of those 50 blonde women.'
Officers used the powers to search 125,000 people in 2007/8, up from 42,000
the year before. Only one per cent of searches led to an arrest, leading to
claims it was being overused.
Black people were eight times more likely and Asians were twice as likely to
be stopped and searched than whites.
Lord Carlile said the 'ethnic imbalance' was a 'proportional consequence' of
the fact that the main terror threat was from Islamic extremists.
Met Police assistant commissioner John Yates said: 'We ask our officers to
apply common sense and discretion in the way that they police this.'
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'If, for example, 50 blonde women are stopped who fall nowhere near any
intelligence"
LMAO!!!! Now THAT is a classic line!
- Anon, UK
This has been going on for a long time.
What makes me even more angry than the waste of the police force's time and my
money is that this whole problem was introduced along with the imported people
that none of us wanted here in the first place.
Let's hear it for democracy!
- Croyboy, Croydon, UK
In the last ten years the only terrorists operating in mainland Britain have
been Asian. Therefore searching white people is quite obviously racist.
Not all Asians are terrorists, but all terrorists here are Asians.
- Dave Hedgehog, England
2009 Associated Newspapers Limited
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