'Stop-and-search left me scared of police' 

Well it isn’t them times anymore and crazy reports about police officers coming out nowadays is unbelievable

Maybe in a small town or the commercial district in a big city. The criticism of stop and frisk is that it takes exactly that reasonable response off the table. Maybe not in the first week, but it gets there once everyone realizes the cops are just going to run up on them and go through their belongings. They get mad about it, so the cops get handsy and prickish with everyone. It seems to go down like that everywhere.

@@zakariyaali5185 yes a minority

Why doesnt the BBC post these statistics: *_Despite making up only 13% of London's total population, black Londoners account for 45% of London's knife murder victims, 61% of knife murder perpetrators and 53% of knife crime perpetrators._* The father and son should be concerned about these statistics, yet here they are criticising the Police for being proactive at stopping crime. Why do they come out as being scared of the Police, when it is the people in there own community who pose the greatest threat to there lives?

​@@Djnffnoeosmfasjjd as it should be... shouldn't happen atall

Micheal Gove and other politicians went on TV and admitted to taking Class A drugs, How many times do you think they've been stopped or searched.

Bad take.

@@patrickdixon7202 Please discuss.

I’d usually agree but you can’t really speak unless you’ve been stop and searched before yourself

@@PepsiCubes well i have and we need more. there are too many children dying on the street.

No you don't need police violating law abiding citizen rights

There may be a reason some ethnic groups are stopped more than others, and I find it concerning that these figures aren't widely given when giving statistics on stop and search by ethnicity. *_'Despite making up only 13% of London's total population, black Londoners account for 45% of London's knife murder victims, 61% of knife murder perpetrators and 53% of knife crime perpetrators.'_* Stop and search protects the very communities that complain about it's use. Statisticly 52.6 people out of a thousand black people were stopped and searched in 2020. That statistic means that a black person is statistically going to be stopped and searched once every 19 years. Isn't that worth a person's life, if just one weapon is removed? Personally I would happily be stopped and searched every day if it removed knifes from the streets where I lived.

@@TheMirrorGuy hi mate. Sadly it's not that simple. What about the other races that are hardly stopped? Also a large percentage of those stopped are not carrying knives. It is only a racist tactic. There are many more effective strategies to combat crime.

@@benjmainthompson1322 do you believe that it is unreasonable to be stopped on avarage once every 19 years?

@@benjmainthompson1322 the other races? well we arent the ones going round stabbing people.

black males are the ones going round with knives.

I used to think that until i lived in a neighborhood where it was actually being done (ny). I watched the whole neighborhood turn on the nypd over the course of about a year. By the time i left it took many officers to conduct even a justified arrest, i saw numerous real punches thrown (not some obstruction scuffle) fights break out between people and police, and the police themselves got darker and more violent bc of all the hate sent their way. This obviously only ended up in country/continent wide rioting for us and a full pull back of all of those practices under the of real mob violence, but hey, maybe you guys will have a better go of it.

@@OnkyoGrady I'm from NYC and we went through hell when it was implemented, I was hyped when we got rid of it

Maybe you look dodgy?

@@jimthompson9370 Judge by character, not looks.

@@patrickdixon7202 - how can old bill judge someone walking down the street by their character?