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18 February 2022 / Nicholas Dobson
Issue: 7967 / Categories: Features , Public
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Harry Miller’s tale

Nicholas Dobson reflects on lessons learnt from the Harry Miller case & discusses the perception-based recording of non-crime hate incidents
  • College of Policing Guidance, which included perception-based recording of non-crime hate incidents, interfered with the right to freedom of expression in Art 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and was disproportionate in violation of Art 10.

Stephen Lawrence was horrifically murdered in an unprovoked racist attack on 22 April 1993. Regrettably, it took until 3 January 2012 for two of the original suspects to be convicted of murder. The public inquiry into Stephen Lawrence’s death (headed by Sir William Macpherson) found that the police investigation into Stephen Lawrence’s racist murder was ‘marred by a combination of professional incompetence, institutional racism and a failure of leadership by senior officers’ (emphasis added).

According to the Inquiry Report (issued in February 1999), institutional racism ‘consists of the collective failure of an organisation to provide an appropriate and professional service to people because of their colour, culture or ethnic origin’. This ‘can be seen

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