Black girls three times more likely to undergo invasive strip-search by Met police

Young people have told StopWatch they were strip-searched without an appropriate adult present, subjected to aggressive use of force, denied access to sanitary products while in custody, and released from police stations in the middle of the night without knowing how to safely get home.

for fucks sake

Of all the stop and searches Liberty Investigates analysed, 75% resulted in no further action being taken, suggesting many did not help to prevent or prosecute a crime.

this tells me that strip searches are used as a form of punishment

Christ on a bike

as a PP says, it’s only by looking for patterns that this kind of prejudice becomes obvious. It’s good to see Liberty doing something useful

Shocking, but given some of the accounts that have come out not surprising. And I'm better these girls are being triply victimised by being judged and treated as older than they are.

Facts like this and the maternal health report really drive home how embedded racism is into it society. It’s sometimes hard to see individual acts as definitely being racism. A bit like how you can’t look at one bad storm and say, global warming caused this, but when you look at the figures en masse, you see how enormous the problem really is.

I am not surprised by this, after the other recent revelations. Particularly the recent investigations into strip searching of girls at school.