Sections Of The Police Are Still Racist

24th February 2014

Should we do away with trials and just let Baroness Lawrence decide the outcome of investigations?

Please discuss.

The mother of murdered London teenager Stephen Lawrence has said she believes parts of the police are still racist.

Speaking 15 years after the Macpherson Report branded the Metropolitan Police force "institutionally racist", Baroness Lawrence said some attitudes "haven't changed much".

She said stop and search measures continued to be unfair.

Asked about the shooting of Mark Duggan, which sparked riots across England, Baroness Lawrence said: "It seems as if it's more acceptable" when a black person is killed.

In response to Baroness Lawrence's comments on Mark Duggan a Metropolitan Police Federation spokesman said: "The officer in this case has been through a judicial process that has included two crown court trials and a coroner's inquest, which thoroughly examined all of the circumstances and factors involved that day.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26321708

Hmmmmm. I agree and I disagree.
Ok here's what I think: in certain areas of the country ie London in particulars, you see a black crowd of youths in hoodies you think "possible trouble".
You do. I don't care what anyone says. (It also works for white boys so perhaps it's the hoodie and not the colour of the skin??)

So are police racist if they assume that a big crowd of black boys, in a car, pumping music, are up to no good?
Probably.
Is it racist?
Probably.
Is it justified?
Probably.

But I know they'd also think it about the same scenario of white boys. So is that racist?
Only if the police men are black...!

However, if police stop a suited and booted, well-spoken black man for a stop and search is that racist?
Probably and more likely definitely.


I think, in certain parts of the country police do look for a type. That type is gangland hoodie black/white youths.

Arrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhhh!



Sorry about that.

eddie wrote:Hmmmmm. I agree and I disagree.
Ok here's what I think: in certain areas of the country ie London in particulars, you see a black crowd of youths in hoodies you think "possible trouble".
You do. I don't care what anyone says. (It also works for white boys so perhaps it's the hoodie and not the colour of the skin??)

So are police racist if they assume that a big crowd of black boys, in a car, pumping music, are up to no good?
Probably.
Is it racist?
Probably.
Is it justified?
Probably.

But I know they'd also think it about the same scenario of white boys. So is that racist?
Only if the police men are black...!

However, if police stop a suited and booted, well-spoken black man for a stop and search is that racist?
Probably and more likely definitely.


I think, in certain parts of the country police do look for a type. That type is gangland hoodie black/white youths.

The police need to be left alone to work out for themselves who they need to stop and search.

In London that is probably black gangs in hoodies.

In Liverpool I have no doubt it is scousers with perms and in Newcastle it is pasty-faced ginger tw4ts.