Research by Juanjo Medina, a criminologist at The University of Manchester, found that a young person is more likely to be stopped because they are black or associate with people known to the police rather than the frequency or severity of their offending.
Historical data has shown more young black and minority ethnic (BME) men are stopped than their white counterparts, but it was thought that this may be down to a higher BME population in “crime hotspot” areas.
But Medina’s study found that even when demographic factors, area characteristics and the amount of time young people spent on the street were taken into account, young black and ethnic minority people are still disproportionately targeted.
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