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Originally Posted by Xaccers
Answer me this simple question:
An islamic fundamentalist terrorist is most likely to be:
A) White
B) Black
C) Asian
D) Oriental
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At last....found the question!
OK how about answering your question with a question
If you are a police officer within a force which confesses itself to be instutionally racist (as GMP here have) are you more likely to stop and search:
1. A white person?
2. A black/Asian person?
The issue with stop and search is that it is a power that has in the past been abused and demonstrated to be counter-productive to effective policing. We are all, I'm sure, concerned with reducing and containing the threat of terrorism (although we may disagree on what the level of threat is) and my point is simply that S&S is unlikely to be in any way effective in doing so.