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Racist policing is widely under-reported in the EU, says new report
Police officers cordon off the road outside the Santiago Bernabeu stadium, ahead of the Champions League quarter-final first leg match between Real Madrid and Manchester City in Madrid, Spain, April 9, 2024

RACIST policing is widely under-reported in the European Union, a damning new report said today.

The EU’s Vienna-based Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) said most EU countries had “no official data sources on racist incidents and discrimination involving the police.”

The report said that only a few member states separately recorded incidents of police racism and of that number only Germany, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands publish the data.

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