Monday, May 02, 2005

UK: Stop & search: Ethnic injustice continues / Statewatch special report, April 2005

http://www.statewatch.org/news/2005/apr/uk-stop-and-search-2005.pdf
"A Home Office minister, made the extraordinary statement that the new anti-terrorism legislation would be disproportionately used against the Muslim community. Statewatch analyses the latest stop-and-search figures which show that the Asian community has felt the the largest increase in the use of these powers and that black people are still much more likely to be stopped and searched - almost seven times more likely than white people."