Interesting reading and a sensible debate thus far.
The article did say that discrimination by police is only part of the problem..another reason why black youth are perhaps over represented in the figures could be due to
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A web of disadvantages contributes to the situation with the primary cause being social exclusion, caused by under achievement in school, deprivation, poor housing, lack of father involvement and other negative influences in the media and popular culture.
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So we need a two fold set of measures to address this problem.Try to make sure that stop and search is applied fairly to all and that police are made to be a little more thoughtful about whom and why they stop and search and that we really try to deal with the other contributory issues instead of shrugging our shoulders and saying in a knee jerk reaction that the black community are being perhaps a bit over sensitive about racism because they feel a certain sense of unfairness about the issue.