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Black children in England and Wales four times more likely to be strip-searched, figures show (www.theguardian.com)

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

What happens when they control for family income? I don’t mean to belittle the point but it’s frustrating that so many injustices that are class issues get twisted into race issues to further divide people and strip them of collective power.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why can't it be both racist and classist? They reinforce each other.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Looking at the situation in the US, I long ago concluded that Wealth Discrimination is the mechanism via which Racism gets turned into people living hard miserable lives 24/7/365 - poor people have bad houses, bad furniture, lower life expectancy, lots of money related stress, live in more dangerous neighbourhoods, spend a lot more time commuting and so on, and their children only have access to bad underfunded schooling, so have little or no hope of leaving that pit: Racism pushes people into poverty and ghettos (for example by not having access to certain jobs or not being allowed to buy or rent houses in certain places) and once there it's the high uneveness of access to resources depending on one's Wealth (i.e. Wealth Discrimination) that grinds them day in and day out and makes sure that subsequent generations cannot climb out of it.

Whenever someone hears a "liberal" politicians claiming to be against Racism whilst at the same time being for Private Education and Private Healthcare, they should ponder on why would an "anti-Racists" want to maintaining and even expand the mechanisms that make life be unending misery for the racially discriminated against and their children.

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