The news that black people are eight times more likely than white people to be stopped and searched by police drew widespread condemnation of the Home Office and the police last week. The figures are in a Home Office report giving a detailed ethnic breakdown of young offenders, court decisions and prisoners in the UK.
The report, Statistics on Race and the Criminal Justice System 2002, also reveals that Asians are three times more likely than white people to be stopped. And compared with the previous year, stop and search figures for non-white groups rose on average by 23 per cent.
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