Ex-race chief makes controversial call for tougher policing in black communities hit by knife crime
by Simon Walters, Mail on Sunday:
A controversial call for tougher policing in black communities hit by knife crime than in white areas with less violence has been made by the former head of the Commission for Racial Equality.
In a move that is bound to provoke a fierce debate, lifelong community relations campaigner Trevor Phillips takes political leaders to task for failing to acknowledge that rising knife crime in London involves race.
He says police should be allowed to make more ‘stop and search’ checks of suspected thugs in areas such as Tottenham in London – where Mr Phillips himself grew up and where several knife attacks have occurred – than in areas such as leafy Maidenhead, Mrs May’s Royal Berkshire constituency.
[…] He said: ‘One of the main problems we face is that nobody has had the courage to stand up and tell the truth. Unless we are honest enough to acknowledge the real nature of the problem, and in particular the fact that it has racial and cultural dimensions, all we are doing is flapping our lips and virtue signalling.’
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