London force could be mislabelling youths,main to harsher treatment by criminal justice system, MP David Lammy finds in review for PMThe Metropolitan police may be overly targeting black and ethnic minority youths as gang members, or resulting in them being treated more harshly by the courts,prisons and justice system, a review has found.
The concerns centre on figures showing nearly 90% of youths classed as gang members by Britain’s largest force are black or from other ethnic minority backgrounds (BAME) – which is considerably in excess of their proportion in the population. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com