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Originally Posted by andyl
Of course the Government has clearly done its research and seen how successful the SUS laws of the late 70s were when we saw an extraordinarily disproportionate number of black people being stopped and searched. That gave Brixton a lovely warm feeling - well whilst it burned at least.
You cannot stigmatise a majority for the actions of a minority. Besides I thought modern policing was supposed to be intelligence led. Random stop and search of one section of the community doesn't sound very intelligent to me.
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The difference between intelligence led only policing and random stop and search
1 permit knowingly as a law enforcement agency crimes to be commited while gathering intelligence.
2 Be seen actively doing something to stop crimes before or as they are commited.
Neither methods are good but a mix of the two is the only way in todays society.