The way section 60 search legislation is used on Black people, it’s more like a tool of social control rather than a specific crime-fighting tool
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Police up to 22 times more likely to use ‘completely useless’ stop-searches on black people
POLICE forces were up to 22 times more likely to use “completely useless” stop-and-search powers on black people than white in the last year, according to the campaign group StopWatch.The Home Office ...
![On the necessity of SVROs from the court’s perspective: "[T]he most common reason for eligible individuals not receiving an SVRO where an application was made was rejection in court by the judiciary, often due to insufficient evidence or lack of necessity/proportionality.
The evaluation did not reference the use of lower quality evidence in SVRO applications that did reach the courts, but the possibility of judges considering otherwise inadmissible evidence in their deliberations cannot be ruled out."
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![On the impact on vulnerable populations: [T]here was no robust quantitative evidence of ethnic disproportionality in the SVRO process... However... scrutiny and fair use panels identified an 'unexpected disproportionality': some homeless individuals had been subjected to multiple stop and searches.
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![On legal safeguards and arbitrary discretion: [O]fficers conducted SVRO stop-searches with ‘varying levels of frequency’, some searching SVRO recipients ‘every time they encounter[ed] the individual’. However, very little was found... in searches involving homeless individuals, it ‘did not appear’ that officers were thorough, ‘nor did they appear to expect to find a weapon’... there was just one stop and search incident where the SVRO legal power was used and a weapon was found, yielding a find rate of 0.3% from 315 searches.
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