Disproportionate and Discriminatory: Reviewing the Evidence on Police Stop and Search
Disproportionate and Discriminatory: Reviewing the Evidence on Police Stop and Search
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不成比例和歧视：审查警察拦截和搜查的证据
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2007
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通讯作者：
Coretta Phillips
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作者：
Ben Bowling;Coretta Phillips
劳伦斯调查八年后，警察在公共场所拦截和搜查人员的权力问题仍然是关于警察社区关系的辩论的焦点。根据一系列广泛的立法法案，警察有权拦截和搜查公民，这项权力每天都在英国各地使用。劳伦斯调查非但没有平息这场争论，反而引发了新的研究和新的理论来解释官方统计数据。我们认为，统计数据表明，对黑人使用权力是不成比例的，这是非法种族歧视的迹象。如果拦截和搜查的权力不能得到有效的管制-似乎不能-那么继续使用这种权力是没有道理的，应该加以限制。
Eight years after the Lawrence Inquiry, the question of police powers to stop and search people in public places remains at the forefront of debate about police community relations. Police are empowered to stop and search citizens under a wide range of legislative acts and the power is employed daily across Britain. Far from laying the debate to rest, the Lawrence Inquiry prompted new research studies and fresh theories to explain the official statistics. We argue that the statistics show that the use of the powers against black people is disproportionate and that this is an indication of unlawful racial discrimination. If stop and search powers cannot be effectively regulated - and it seems that they cannot - then their continued use is unjustified and should be curtailed.