[Pierre]

Originally Posted by me283

And you could also blame the disproportionate reporting of "institutionally racist police forces" on sensationalist journalism, and the same for your dredged up comments about SUS laws and the SPG.

As for the idea of "too low a proportion" of police officers from ethnic minorities, what do you suggest? We wait until the number is at a level considered good enough by lily-livered liberals, and then we start approaching the issues of policing ethnic morities? Or do we accept that "a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single footstep"?

Innocent people will be affected, as they always have been. But when you stop and search someone, you cannot be sure they are guilty. Hence, they may be innocent, and the stop and search may well prove that.
__________________



And there we have it... it's because they are black/Asian/coloured. Obviously. It couldn't be (in the first instance) that perhaps he fitted a description of a known or reported drug dealer?

I lived in an area where EVERY arrest of anyone from an Asian/black/ethnic minority background was touted as being racist, however guilty the person was. You get used to it. Us realists accept it as people chancing their arm; liberal types throw up their arms, as if the police just do it for kicks (when on occasion, that's what they end up receiving).

A very good post