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Metropolitan police officers carrying out a stop and search on a man
TO BE black in Britain is to suffer the indignity and near certainty of a “stop-and-search” encounter with the police.
The official statistics won’t capture every incident, but they do show that the police carried out 54 stops for every 1,000 black people in the year 2019-20.
The Metropolitan Police topped the league table, with over 70 incidents per 1,000, but Merseyside was not far behind with about 65.
The Met Police's refusal to act against British nationals accused of war crimes in Gaza is a green light for Israel's genocide, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
Digital ID means the government could track anyone and then limit their speech, movements, finances — and it could get this all wrong, identifying the wrong people for the wrong reasons, as the numerous digital cockups so far demonstrate, warns DYLAN MURPHY
