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Black people are OVER-CRIMINALISED throughout our criminal justice system.
Black history month may be over but our conversations should not be.
A THREAD.
Black history month may be over but our conversations should not be.
A THREAD.
Black people are OVER-POLICED.
Black people are stopped and searched at a rate of 38 per 1000 people
...which compares to a rate of just 4 per 1000 people.
https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/crime-justice-and-the-law/policing/stop-and-search/latest#by-ethnicity
Black people are stopped and searched at a rate of 38 per 1000 people
...which compares to a rate of just 4 per 1000 people.
https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/crime-justice-and-the-law/policing/stop-and-search/latest#by-ethnicity
Black people are also arrested at a higher rate.
Black people are arrested at a rate of 32 per 1000 people
...which compares to a rate of just 10 per 1000 people.
https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/crime-justice-and-the-law/policing/number-of-arrests/latest
Black people are arrested at a rate of 32 per 1000 people
...which compares to a rate of just 10 per 1000 people.
https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/crime-justice-and-the-law/policing/number-of-arrests/latest
Unsurprisingly, we see a disproportionately high number of black people in court as defendants.
In a profession where black people are UNDERREPRESENTED, particularly at the senior end (only 1.1% of QCs are black & only 1.1% of judges)... there is a huge power disparity.
In a profession where black people are UNDERREPRESENTED, particularly at the senior end (only 1.1% of QCs are black & only 1.1% of judges)... there is a huge power disparity.
Black people (grouped here under the term BAME) are more likely to go to prison than their white counterparts.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/479874/analysis-of-ethnicity-and-custodial-sentences.pdf
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/479874/analysis-of-ethnicity-and-custodial-sentences.pdf
Black people (and Asian people) receive longer sentences than their white counterparts.
https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/crime-justice-and-the-law/courts-sentencing-and-tribunals/average-length-of-custodial-sentences/latest#main-facts-and-figures
https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/crime-justice-and-the-law/courts-sentencing-and-tribunals/average-length-of-custodial-sentences/latest#main-facts-and-figures
Again unsurprisingly (given the above) Black people are hugely OVER-REPRESENTED in prison.
https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN04334/SN04334.pdf
https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN04334/SN04334.pdf
For an excellent book on mass incarceration of black people (written about the US criminal justice system) I recommend Michelle Alexander’s book ‘The New Jim Crow’.
