The Guardian: “Thousands of people are being stopped and searched by the police under counter-terrorism powers simply to provide a racial balance in official statistics, the government’s official anti-terror law watchdog has revealed.” (via Jesse Walker, Reason “Hit and Run”). More: Patrick at Popehat.
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I would think that in order to achieve real balance the police would stop each other and check each other out. Then there’s those folks in Buckingham Palace and of course, Parliament. Otherwise it’s profiling.
Bob