Wednesday, 22 July 2009

Racist Police?

A report released today by the Commons Home Affairs Committee declared that there still exists in the British Police Force (I won't use 'service') racism.

The chairman of the committee - MP (disgraced of course - aren't they all?) Keith Vaz - commented on the 'blatantly disproportionate representation of particularly black people in the criminal justice system regarding numbers held on the DNA database'. (I paraphrase).

I'm sorry for pointing out the bleeding obvious but isn't there such a blatantly disproportionate representation of particularly black people in the criminal justice system regarding numbers held on the DNA database because particularly black people are disproportionately criminal?

This is a fact. For whatever reasons. But this is a fact. Proportionately black people commit more (many more) crimes than white people so there are going to be proportionately more of them on the criminal DNA database.

It's not racist to point this out.

What does Vaz want the police to do - let black people off crimes so as to balance things?

Probably.

2 comments:

James Higham said...

That's right, there's a lot of racism - against the white males.

Jeannine said...

Arthur's just written a story about it on the BNP site.