UK: Stop & search: Ethnic injustice continues unabated

Statewatch special report: Ethnic injustice continues unabated Last month Hazel Blears, a home office minister, made the extraordinary statement that the new anti-terrorism legislation would be disproportionately used against the Muslim community. Statewatch analyses the latest stop-and-search figures which show that the Asian community has felt the the largest increase in the use of these powers and that black people are still much more likely to be stopped and searched – almost seven times more likely than white people. This article was published at the end of March in Statewatch bulletin (vol 15 no 1): see contents and subscriptions.