Barrister tasked with improving police relations with black community amid ...
Panel to tackle racial policing: Barrister is tasked with improving relations between police and black community after inquiry finds 'deep-rooted' racial issues Report found stop and search more racially disproportionate than 20 years ago Black people nine and a half times more likely to be stopped than white people A Commons committee found no evidence to support this disproportionality
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A leading barrister has been asked to help improve relations between police and the black community after an inquiry found ‘deep-rooted’ racial disparities.
Abimbola Johnson will lead an independent ‘scrutiny and oversight board,’ the National Police Chiefs Council announced last night.
A report from the Commons home affairs committee found last week that the use of stop and search was more racially disproportionate now than 20 years ago.
Miss Johnson said: ‘Black people have been disproportionately affected by policing for decades, as
