Drug use v prosecution

[Micilin]

Cajar ,

On your previous post about regarding repeat offenders.
This would mean even fewer individual users involved compared to white users.

Does this ,or any of the scenarios you put forward, materially affect the commentary in the report?

I don't think there has to be an emotional response to reports like these.

 

[cajar]

I'm conflicted with it because on one hand even with the met data it appears the police are targeting blacks and the effect it has on the black community can't be ignored, one guy was stopped 25 times? on the other hand if I dig into the data and find there were aggravating factors in the black arrests like previous records then I feel the authors are being disingenuous. and that is sad because there is a real issue and this misrepresentation does the issue no favours.

 

[Micilin]

I think it is hard to find totallyunbiased data anywhere, agreed.

Also a worry is the lack of understanding of statistics, cause v correlation, and people making unfounded leaps from one set of numbers to make findings that confirm their bias.


If one criminal offends 25 times, that is good because it means there are not 25 different criminals. However the worry is why does it get past 3 times?

 

[cajar]

Indeed, the more these things are 'sexed up' the more people look at them and assume they are sexed up, meaning the real factual claims struggle to be heard. I also think it's a strange brew to report racial inequality among criminals anyway, surely the focus should be on the effects of the stop n search on the law abiding blacks, when compared to daily life of average law abiding whites.

 

[Micilin]

Indeed, the more these things are 'sexed up' the more people look at them and assume they are sexed up, meaning the real factual claims struggle to be heard. I also think it's a strange brew to report racial inequality among criminals anyway, surely the focus should be on the effects of the stop n search on the law abiding blacks, when compared to daily life of average law abiding whites.

There are other reports on that eg attitudes towards police.

I think this report is more about attitudes of police/justice system towards people , and their treatment, that then feeds into your point.

Also it exposes the folly of racial stereotyping when dealing with individuals.

I found it interesting in terms of some posters wanting to go beyond the figures shown to make suppositions, not having commented directly on them first.