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Report Finds Racist Law Enforcement In England – Again
Linn Washington Jr.
London, UK – Police and prosecutors scheme to secure convictions of persons that did not participate in any crime. Racial minorities disproportionately bear the brunt of this improper practice.
Sounds like too many cities across the United States.
However, this practice of racist law enforcement is also rampant in three of the largest cities in England, including the capital city of London, according to a report released recently by the Centre For Crime and Justice Studies of Manchester Metropolitan University.
“The key findings [indicate] the criminal justice system is more flawed than we might imagine,” stated the conclusion of the report entitled “Dangerous associations: joint enterprise, gangs and racism.”
The study documented that while police in Britain quickly label young blacks as the largest group belonging to gangs but black youth were not those who committed the most serious youth violence. In London for example police list blacks as 72 percent of that city’s gang members. But official data collected for the report stated non-blacks committed 73 percent of the serious youth violence in London.
The report found that prosecutors seize upon on the gang label levied by police to inflate the perception of criminality during trials to elevate prospects for convictions. Prosecutors often push non-crime related ‘evidence’ like listening to rap music and texting friends, particularly in cases where the defendant was not at the scene of the crime…or even knew a crime would ever occur.
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Source: http://thiscantbehappening.net/node/3026
