Having experienced the 'stop and search' policy on numerous occasions over the last year, i feel that yes, the police do tend to favour stopping young, male minorities over young, male whites. It's not that i think that all police officers are intrinsically racist; that's absurd. I do however, feel that this government has placed too much emphasis and too much pressure on the police force to prevent potential 'terrorist' threats and potential 'race-related' crimes. I've been stopped on occasions where I was walking home from a friends in the early evening, perfectly sober and lucid. The recurring pattern seems to be that they stop me for no reason other than that i seem to meet some bizarre government sanctioned profile. bear in mind i'm neither asian, nor north africa or even the middle east. I'm also not muslim, or for that matter at all religious. i'm just a normal european guy in his early 20s. i mean, stop me once, that's fine, stop me twice, i get worried, stop me 6 times in the space of 9 months, and i get paranoid and more than a little worried about waking up in handcuffs on a military cargo plane to guantanamo bay. so, is the police force racist? maybe not, but they're sure as hell doing a good job of making it look like they are.

yes some on the ploice force are rasist and do tend to stop minorites because steriotypiclly they are suppossed to pose a bigger threat but i think that is stupid u can be any race and still pose a threat to society it has nothing to do with race only the state of mind obviously race is a supporting factor but being a minority doesnt mean u are automaticlly a threat i have heard a aboput some storys of ploice forces being rasist but not all re and they shouldnt be grouped like they are as are not all the same