According to the Home Office, Black people were six times more likely to be stopped and searched by police as the gap between them gets wider. While the use of stop and search has fallen, Black and minority ethnic groups were three times more likely to stopped by the police.
In the year towards the end of March, the police carried out 357,448 stop and searches in England and Wales. The figure was a 12% reduction compared to the previous year. While searches fell across all the ethnic groups, stops of white people fell 38% compared to 13% for black and ethnic minority people.
