arrests, courts and sentencing

• 2020-21, persons who identified as Black were arrested at a rate 3 x higher than white
• arrests in 2020-21 2 x higher for mixed, 1.2 x higher for asian individuals
• London: 55% of people arrested by the MET police were from BAME backgrounds
• in 2018-19, 8% of white suspects were arrested for drug offences compared to 19% of black, 15% Asian, 15% mixed and 12% chinese or other
• in 2019, BAME made up:

  • 16% population
  • 23% people arrested
  • 24% people remanded by magistrates' court
  • 26% people remanded by Crown Court
  • 23% people prosecuted
  • 21% people convicted
  • 22% people sentenced to immediate custody
  • 27% people in prison
• average custodial length

  • 27 months for BAME offenders
  • 19.5 for white
• BAME more likely to be sentenced to immediate custody
• A survey of 373 legal professionals found that 56% had witnessed at least one judge acting in a racially biased way, with 52% witnessing discrimination in judicial decision-making 
• 2019,

  • 92.6% of judges in England and Wales were white, and 7.4% of BME backgrounds.
  • 2020, 92.7% of police officers were white, and 7.4% from a BME background.
  • 2022, 91.9% of officers were white, and 8.1% BME. This clearly displays that the CJS is disproportionate, which makes it more likely to be biased
• Black officers were 81% more likely to face disciplinary action and new ethnic recruits over 120% more likely to be served with being ‘unsuitable for policing’.