Press Cuttings

Letters
Tuesday July 6, 2004
The Guardian

The one indisputable fact about the criminal justice system is that it has consistently failed to protect and serve minority communities. Once again the media glosses over the fact that the African British community is top of the charts with its annual increase in stops. Once again the Police Federation uses pseudo-maths to deny the relevance of disproportionality, negating to admit that not all stops are recorded, and once again the Home Office empowers racially biased police officers with new tools to legally evade detection. No doubt the CRE will issue a statement and someone will commission another report while the African British and now Muslim community continues to be failed.

Toyin Agbetu
The Ligali Organisation

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