DECADES OF ANIMOSITY.STOP and search has been controversial for many years among ethnic minorities. Police could stop any suspected person up until 1984 - even if they had no reason to believe they had committed a crime. Many black men felt harassed and anger fuelled 1981's Brixton riots There have been three riots in Brixton, London:
Officers now need "reasonable grounds" before stopping anybody. But Home Office figures in 2001 showed blacks were five times more likely to be searched than whites. Fears about gun crime have shifted attitudes, with black newspaper The Voice backing stop and search and the National Black Police Association calling for increased powers. CAPTION(S): FURY FURY Fellowship of United Reformed Youth 1981's Brixton riots |
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