Police

• What are the positives of the police?

  • they are prioritising offences of public concern (domestic abuse)
  • they have improved their reporting and recording of crime
• What was the polices decline in government funding between 2010/2018?

  19%
• How much staff did the police decline in between 2010/2018?

  20,000
• How many cases did the police drop between 2014/2016?

  1/3 of their 2 million cases
• Where is there evidential bias and racism in the police service?

  1. stephen lawrence case
  2. recruitment lacks minority groups
  3. they stop, search and taser records are more likely to be towards ethnic groups
• Why was the stephen lawrence case so poorly investigated?

  The polices incompetence due to institutional racism