London mayor targets racial discrimination in city's police

Good. More women too. Both groups are under represented in the Met.

Although it might increase 'racial diversity' within the Met Police, this move probably won't change the number or proportion of stop and searches.

Black Londoners are more than three times as likely to be stopped and searched by police, official data shows,

interesting. Why would that be?

Lets Wiki, shall we...

Figures from the Office for National Statistics showed that in 2007 an estimated 10.6 percent of London's population of 7,556,900 were black.[25] Evidence shows that the black population in London boroughs increases with the level of deprivation, and that the level of crime also increases with deprivation, such that "It is clear that ethnicity, deprivation, victimisation and offending are closely and intricately inter-related".[26]

In June 2010, through a Freedom of Information Act request, The Sunday Telegraph obtained statistics on accusations of crime broken down by race from the Metropolitan Police Service.[n 2] The figures showed that the majority of males who were accused of violent crimes in 2009–2010 were black. Of the recorded 18,091 such accusations against males, 54 percent accused of street crimes were black; for robbery, 58 percent; and for gun crimes, 67 percent.[27] Robbery, drug use, and gang violence have been associated with black people since the 1960s.[28] In the 1980s and 1990s, the police associated robbery with black people. In 1995, the Metropolitan Police commissioner Paul Condon said that the majority of robberies in London were committed by black people.[29]

Street crimes include muggings, assault with intent to rob, and snatching property. Black males accounted for 29 percent of the male victims of gun crime and 24 percent of the male victims of knife crime.[27]

Operation Trident was set up in March 1998 by the Metropolitan Police to investigate gun crime in London's black community after black-on-black shootings in Lambeth and Brent.[30]

Between April 2005 and January 2006, figures from the Metropolitan Police Service showed that black people accounted for 46 percent of car-crime arrests generated by automatic number plate recognition cameras.[3

Oh. I see. The police are stopping and searching the people most likely to be committing crime.

Thats racist.

The police are stopping and searching the people most likely to be committing crime. Thats racist.

Undeniably. When they pull someone over for being black, they are placing the blame for actions performed by someone with the same color skin upon that person simply for having the same color skin. This is about as clear cut a case of racism as you get. It disenfranchises an entire race of people, and makes them (and many others) not have respect for the police. And when there is no respect for the police, it gets harder to do the job, and society suffers.

These racist policies need to stop.