There has been a significant increase in the use of stop and search in the past year, Neil Parpworth of Leicester De Montfort Law School writes in this week’s NLJ
Parpworth looks into the reasons behind the recent rise and considers criticisms of the policy, particularly the fact black people are far more likely to be stopped and searched than white people.
It is ‘imperative’, he writes, that ‘the police use stop and search in a targeted and intelligence led manner,’ he writes. ‘Rises in the use of the powers need to be accompanied by improvements in stop-to-arrest ratios and find rates.’
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