There's no question police are using ridiculously spurious reasons to stop and search, tenuous and hard to substantiate reasons.
Instead of needing to have "grounds", stop and search is turning into a fishing expedition. Can we hopefully stop a black person and find a connection to drugs? Maybe we'll get lucky tonight, maybe we wont but who cares if we don't.
It's a pure game of chance.
The only thing I can say however is that we in the Black community don't make it easy for ourselves sometimes. The "no snitching" policy I grew up with leads to people
who are victims of crime, continuing to foster an environment of crime, just because they won't report a perpetrator due to "the code" or fear of reprisals.
If people weren't so against snitching, perhaps the police would have a marginally easier job linking together suspects and individuals associated with crime.
Still doesn't excuse these ludicrous, disgraceful stopping and searching incidents which are basically blind fishing trips.