Stop and search disproportionately affects black communities – yet police powers are being extended

By Winifred Agnew-Pauley, Research Fellow - Policing Institute for the Eastern Region (PIER), Anglia Ruskin University
Bisola Akintoye, PhD Candidate in Social Policy at the University of Kent, University of Kent

The UK government has extended police stop-and-search powers as part of its recently announced “beating crime plan”. This is despite concern that black and minority groups are more likely to be unfairly targeted by police when they have greater discretion over who they stop and search.

In the plan, the government states that these measures are needed to prevent…

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