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In an interview with my colleague Vikram Dodd, the chair of the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), Martin Hewitt, says forces’ legitimacy in black communities is so low it is damaging the effectiveness of law enforcement.
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I’m afraid if you are nine times more likely to be stopped and searched when you are a young black person going about your business and committing no crime, if you are twice as likely to die in police custody and – it is still the case in Britain that only 1% of our police officers come from black communities – then you can understand that there is a lot to do.
