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Police racism in stop and search powers

By Liz Fekete

1 March 1995

Following a parliamentary question, it has been revealed that forty-two per cent of those stopped and searched by the police in London were from ethnic minorities.

Ethnic minorities account for just twenty per cent of the population in London.

Independent, Guardian 3.12.94

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