Stop and search is ‘ineffectual and racially unjust’, says David Lammy

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News; Articles; Politics

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Stop and search is an “ineffectual” practice and an “integral cog in a racially disproportionate” criminal justice system, Labour MP David Lammy has said. The politician recalled his own experience of being “ambushed” by police officers at the age of 12, when he was stopped for matching the description of a mugger. “Many years later, the fear and embarrassment of the first time I was stopped and searched for a crime I did not commit remains with me,” he wrote in an article for The Observer.

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Zamira Rahim

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/stop-and-search-david-lammy-mp-police-racism-a8583216.html

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independent.co.uk

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