{"id":955,"date":"2009-05-02T12:06:29","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T11:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=955"},"modified":"2009-05-02T12:06:29","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T11:06:29","slug":"increase-stop-and-search-black-and-asian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=955","title":{"rendered":"Increase stop and search &#8211; black and Asian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-956\" style=\"width:150px;\">\r\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/stephenson_sir_paul_met_comm-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"stephenson_sir_paul_met_comm\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>\r\n\t<div>stephenson_sir_paul_met_comm<\/div>\r\n<\/div>The stop and search figures released this week by the Ministry of Justice reveal a surge in the number of black and Asian people stopped under counter-terrorism laws.<\/p>\n<p>There was a 322% rise in the number of black people stopped, compared with an increase of 277% for Asian and 185% for white people. Justifying the huge rise the department quotes the &#8220;robust response by the Metropolitan police&#8221; since the Haymarket bomb in 2007 as one of the factors in the huge rise nationally.<\/p>\n<p>Corinna Ferguson, a human rights barrister at Liberty, said the threefold increase in anti-terror stop and search operations was a clear sign that the powers were being misused: &#8220;Only six in 10,000 people stopped were arrested for terrorism, let alone charged or convicted,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The disproportionate impact on ethnic minorities is even greater than in previous years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Full details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov.uk\/raceandcjs.htm\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>stephenson_sir_paul_met_comm The stop and search figures released this week by the Ministry of Justice reveal a surge in the number of black and Asian people stopped under counter-terrorism laws. There was a 322% rise in the number of black people stopped, compared with an increase of 277% for Asian and 185% for white people. Justifying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}