Black children in England and Wales four times more likely to be strip-searched, figures show - eviltoast
Children’s commissioner finds wide disparity with white counterparts in year to June 2023, with 88% of searches aimed at finding drugs

Children’s commissioner finds wide disparity with white counterparts in year to June 2023, with 88% of searches aimed at finding drugs

Black children are four times more likely to be strip-searched by police officers across England and Wales than their white counterparts, according to the latest nationwide figures disclosed by a watchdog.

The children’s commissioner also found that children under the age of 15 are a bigger proportion of those subjected to intimate searches, official figures from the year to June 2023 showed. Fewer than half of all searches of children in that year (45%) were conducted in the presence of an appropriate adult.

A report released on Monday also found that nearly nine out of every 10 of searches [88%] conducted by England and Wales’s 44 forces were trying to find drugs.

  • Mr_Blott@feddit.ukEnglish
    17·
    3 months ago

    So you can find all this information out by reading a bit more of the MBFC report?

    Cool, I’ll do that, and get a slightly more objective opinion than I would’ve got, and make my own decisions about the source.

    You continue barking at the moon like a leaded-petrol-huffing yank 😂

    Strange person!