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Recommendation 50
50
Paragraph: 369
Knife crime concerns fail to explain widespread racial disparities in stop and search.
Conclusion
We recognise the importance of the police being able to take action against knife crime, and their concern that victims and perpetrators of knife crime are disproportionately Black, but we also note that this does not explain the fact that there are significant racial disparities in stop and searches in every force in the country, with some of the highest levels of disproportionality in areas with very low levels of knife crime.
Paragraph Reference:
369
Government Response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 26 May 2022. Response attribution to this conclusion has not been verified. Read the response document ↗