Stop and Search

[mjr]

"Looking at me in a funny way", "walking on the cracks in the pavement", "walking in a loud shirt in a built-up area", "walking around with an offensive wife". Old satire finally comes alive.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO8EpfyCG2Y

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

carrying horse manure

Just as well it wasn't pigs'

 

[swee'pea99]

Stereotypical nonsense. I was a cop for 19 years and stopped and searched countless people, it was a daily occurrence. I don't remember ANY of the people I searched being non white.

Always dangerous to extrapolate from a single experience to a general truth.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Either you worked in an area which was exclusively white - or you're talking bollocks...

Could be neither of those.

He might actually, dare I say it, be telling the truth.

 

[Chris S]

Cycling is definitely permitted on that pedestrianised area - I've just been given this:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.4...zw!2e0!5s20160601T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

It makes me wonder what he was up to. If anybody here cycles through that area then beware.

 

[User33236]

Always dangerous to extrapolate from a single experience to a general truth.

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You'll find that @Brandane is from Aryshire, in Scotland, which is not covered by your map.

Certainly when I grew up in and around that area it was extremely rare to see a non-white face.

 

[martint235]

You should be given a sheet after a stop and searching detailing it. This will include the reason for the search too.

Many years ago, I was returning from a girlfriend's house at about 3.30 one summer's morning. I was in shorts and a t shirt. The cop car drove past me and I just knew he was going to circle around which he did. Stopped and asked to empty my pockets and so I asked what the reason for the stop was. "There have been a few burglaries in this area where video recorders have been taken" was the response. I slowly looked myself up and down to take in the shorts and t shirt before asking where I would be hiding one.

The copper then told me my search report would be waiting for me the next day at the local nick. However as it'd started raining by this time, I politely asked that he complete it on the spot as I believed was my right. He did so but he wasn't a happy bunny.

 

[swee'pea99]

You'll find that @Brandane is from Aryshire, in Scotland, which is not covered by your map.

Certainly when I grew up in and around that area it was extremely rare to see a non-white face.

Indeed. Which might perhaps give pause for thought before declaring that to suggest a relationship between being black and being stop/searched is 'stereotypical nonsense'.

 

[Incontinentia Buttocks]

GOWISELY. S1 pace search.
https://scontutor.wordpress.com/category/policing-procedures/

 

[swansonj]

Say we take one stop and search a day (as he said he did it each and every working day)... that's 230 working days over 19 years - or 4,370 stops and searches. And not one non-white person?

Nah...

He was on a personal mission to balance out his colleagues' statistics...

 

[mjr]

Gee, thanks for 'splaining that one.

Oh it's always worth another watch!

 

[Brandane]

You'll find that @Brandane is from Aryshire, in Scotland, which is not covered by your map.

Certainly when I grew up in and around that area it was extremely rare to see a non-white face.

Corrrect, and I worked in Greenock, which isn't exactly renowned for attracting a diverse population!
We targeted people who we had reasonable cause to suspect of being in possession of weapons/drugs/stolen property, irrespective of skin colour.
In other areas of the country it may vary, but to suggest the Police go out and target people based on their skin colour is, IMHO, stereotypical nonsense.

 

[Brandane]

Either you worked in an area which was exclusively white - or you're talking bollocks...

I know which one my money's on.

Which one is your money on, then?
I'm not in the habit of spouting bollox on here, unlike some, who only hold credibility among the members who have been here less than 10 minutes.

 

[User33236]

Corrrect, and I worked in Greenock, which isn't exactly renowned for attracting a diverse population!
We targeted people who we had reasonable cause to suspect of being in possession of weapons/drugs/stolen property, irrespective of skin colour.
In other areas of the country it may vary, but to suggest the Police go out and target people based on their skin colour is, IMHO, stereotypical nonsense.

Used to live in Greenock for a bit myself and can picture exactly the type you'd target.

 

[Brandane]

Yet the research shows that's not actually the case now. The overwhelming majority of searches in Scotland are non-statutory (not backed by legal authority and
does not require reasonable suspicion).



And yet in England and Wales the evidence is clear. Stop and search is disproportionately applied to BME people - in particular BME males.

I'm at work using fone, so can't open the file you linked to, but I'm sure it will be a source of entertainment later.
Not the case "now", so has Greenock suddenly become a great big melting pot? And as for searches in Scotland being non statutory, again that must be post 2001 (when I finished), as we only carried out searches under MDA 1971, Civic Govt Scotland act 1982, and Prevention of Crime act (1953 IIRC)...
Any changes to legislation are not relevant to you calling me a liar anyway, oh and previously, a bent copper. You're just a troll, and not a very good one.