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There was a murder in Portobello Road last week - which is about a mile away from this incident old bill have been on high alert and patrolling the area....She should have just got out the car and let the old bill do what they got to do and work with the community.
There was also a 2 year old boy who got shot in the head along with his mother about 2 miles away in Harlesden a few weeks back, knife and gun crime is off the scale right now in W.London so the community needs to work together because it might be your son or granddaughter who gets caught in the crossfire.
lets be honest here
they were asked to pull over, they didnt, when they were stopped they wouldnt get out of the car
it doesnt matter if you are black or white, the police are never going to be happy with the above
i am guessing if i drive that car around any city of town and drive on the wrong side of the road, if the police see me they will pull me over, if i dont stop, they are going to follow me till they can force me to
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see earlier post about being stopped in London for a minor offence
maybe crime happens in certain areas, and maybe those areas have higher than average BAME residents. It should not surprise you that more crime happens in Ely than say Cyncoed. People's skin colour is nothing to do with it, whereas social circumstance plays are very large part.
I doubt anyone on hear, including you, could identify them as athletes before this incident.
maybe after a search the police realised the smell was coming from elsewhere.
once again you're a SJW who likes to believe one version without establishing the full facts. we have no idea what happened as we don't have the full facts.
have the police ever stopped a white person for similar offences? did those people cry to the press about it?
i'm pretty sure the sink estates of Cardiff are full of people who get stopped for no other reason than where they live. But that would be a non story because they're white.
come on Jon you're clever enough. knife crime is not homogeneous in London it is restricted to certain areas, areas that have higher than average BAME residents. Thats not suggesting that BAME are more likely to commit knife crime, but areas of social deprivation are more likely to have higher incidents. If you specifically target those areas, then you are going to have higher than normal instances on people from those areas being stopped and searched. That's not racist. However, as these areas have higher than average BAME residents, then it would appear than the BAME community is being searched out of proportion.
Let me put it another way - during the Northern Ireland troubles, were the RUC and MI6 looking for terrorists in Northern Ireland, Wales, France or Kenya? Where do you think the security services would have more success in focusing their attention - it is the same here. If there is knife crime, then focus on those areas where the crime is happening.
people have not provided any statistics, they have provided articles to support their own position.
if the statistics are there that support your position, they must be easy for you to find. If you can find them, great, share them with us. if you can't find them, then they clearly don't exist.
I agree with some of that but it dodges the charge of racial profiling. If the police are targeting people just because of their skin colour or nationality - that is racist. It is simple. If they are targeting people because of location, time of day, gang membership, behaviour consistent with probable criminal activity, and a number of other relevant factors, that is probably a reasonable and evidence-based way of targeting resources. As I understand the data and anecdotes, what is presented as one thing regularly slips into the other - with crude racial profiling underpinning the stop and search statistics (and in fact most of the statistics that show discriminatory treatment of BAME people throughout the police and criminal justice system - from police stop to conviction and sentence length).
Loads of statistics on stop and search out there showing black people are more likely to be stopped than white people
There is a video of a copper stopping a black guy in cambridge , he says to the black guy ......I am not going to lie to you , you are a black guy .....no shit sherlock ......and we have a lot of drug dealing going on here .....
I have no idea if there was weed in the area, in the car or anywhere else. its not uncommon to smell weed when you're out and about. you of all people should know its quite popular. I cant walk the length of my local park without coming across the sweet smell of Mary Jane.
SJW = social justice warrior. someone who is always fighting on behalf of others irrespective of whether they want people fighting for them or not.