Police Warned Over Legality of Gang Crime Database Because Majority of Entries Are Black Males

by VIRGINIA HALE
Breitbart
May. 11, 2018

Britain has been told to scrap its "racialised" war on youth violence after an investigation accused the nation of breaching human rights law with police use of an anti-gangs database featuring predominantly black, male suspects.

Amnesty International called on the government "to urgently review" the Metropolitan Police's Gangs Matrix and set up a public enquiry after it found that black men constituted 78 per cent of 3,500 people registered on the monitoring database.

"There is clearly a huge problem with knife-crime violence at the moment in London, but the Gangs Matrix is not the answer," said the NGO's UK Director Kate Allen, asserting that the list is "part of an unhelpful and racialised focus on the concept of gangs."

"The Mayor of London needs to dismantle the Matrix unless he can bring it in line with international human rights standards," she said.

"The entire system is racially discriminatory," according to the Amnesty boss, who explained that the matrix "perpetuates racial bias" by "stigmatising young black men for the type of music they listen to".

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