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UK: Majority Of Boroughs Fail To Meet Stop And Search Arrest Targets

17 January 2016

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"Two thirds of London boroughs are failing to meet arrest targets set under the Met's stop and search guidance, police data shows.

It means that across the capital hundreds of thousands of people are being unnecessarily searched by the police — mostly black people, who are 11.5 times more likely to be stopped than their white counterparts."

See the article: Majority Of Boroughs Fail To Meet Stop And Search Arrest Targets (Londonist, link)

See: Metropolitan Police: Stops and Searches Monitoring Mechanism, November 2015 (pdf)

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