Reducing the disproportionate policing of Black children

Policing in England and Wales has long been criticised for its disproportionate treatment of people of colour, particularly Black people. Communities of colour assert they are over-policed and under-protected – treated as suspects first rather than needing protection from crime and violence. The shocking 2020 strip-search of 13-year-old Child Q by police at her Hackney school and subsequent national outrage highlighted the ways Black children have long been subject to disproportionate policing at the hands of UK police, including strip-searches and stop-and-searches.

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