Where are you guys on stop and search?

Northampton, England
December 14, 2017 4:51am CST
A surprising statistic popped up in the news today in England that 1-in-3 young white men stopped and searched by the cops had drugs on them compared to 1-in-4 of young black men. We all know black guys are stopped and searched way more than they should be in our big cities and the tensions it causes. But I think what this stat shows is simply the wide spread use of drugs by all races now that the police have backed off arresting kids for smoking dope in public. Now that coke is no longer the drug of the rich and pretty cheap on the streets that has also added to the statistic. Young white middle class kids with drugs on them tend to get let off more than young black boys carrying drugs. The damaging bias is there. In the big inner cities young black men tend to be over involved in the drugs trade and more likely to have larger amounts on them than white kids as they tend to be most of the street dealers. Black gang youth tends to sell drugs and white people buy drugs and so black kids always the villains in the eyes of the police. Whereas white British adults dominate drunken violence in Britain Young black men dominate violent knife and street crime in Britain’s biggest cities. The last 15 teenagers to be stabbed to death in London were all black. 50 of the last 60 were black. This means they have to be policed harder. Because of that knife and gun crime epidemic the police are being pressurized from both sides to stop the violence. The parents of these kids want the killing to stop but not prepared to support increased stop and search to take knives of the street. We had a huge riot in 2011 when a young black gang member was gunned down by the cops and 1200 young mostly ethnic Londoners were taken to court for it and 700 jailed. If you are going to riot over the death of a gang-banger then you have no trust in society if they are your role models. Increased stop and search will target young black men because that’s where the serious drug and violent crime is in places like London and that just makes the kids more resentful and angry and so commit more knife and gun crime and get sucked into the drugs trade, an unfixable paradox across the world where black and white mix. 10% of London are working age black adults but they 45% of London’s unemployed. 70% of street robbers are also done by this demographic.
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