We're out in the shires! Black ethnicity 1.3%. 2024 was around half a dozen stops a month. 2025 to date around a dozen per month.

Thanks. We need to look at that. What's troubling us right now is that HO data ending Mar 25. Shows Black SS at 4.9x. Yet Apr25-Sep25 data is showing 11x. And we don't know why.

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Such a shame it's on Substack. There is an ongoing exodus from that platform, people just don't want to support it.

Yes, for sure. But Policing is meant to be more than that, isn't it? This is about equity and legitimacy. The disproportionality in the false positives will inevitably have downstream implications. It is morally problematic.

I guess we are going to have to agree to disagree on this.

and that's the point. These false positives are people! These figures cannot be brushed aside unless, of course, leadership is content to bake even more disproportionality into a system that's already groaning under its weight.

Maybe accurate but 8 out of 10 false positives were people going about their lawful business. Pulled aside in public, surrounded by officers, talked to, intimidated then sent on their way, humiliated, just because they're Black. That cannot be brushed aside.

Approx 4m people use the Tube daily.

If fare evasion is a breach of the rail co. bylaws, doesn't that make it civil offence? If that's true, would a police officer even have the power of arrest in this situation? ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

By outcome you mean arrest? Sort of brushes aside the 8 out of 10 false alerts were people from Black ethnic backgrounds doesn't it? Pulled aside in public, surrounded by officers, talked to, intimidated then sent on their way. Just for going about their lawful business but being Black.

Indeed! We lack specific law governing police use of LFR. Relying instead on court rulings, HO & ICO guidance. This regulatory gap limits oversight and raises serious concerns. In a functional democracy, any surveillance that impacts fundamental rights needs parliamentary scrutiny. We need that now!

It should be pointed out that the EU has effectively blocked police use of live facial‑recognition in public areas to protect citizens’ privacy & fundamental rights and preventing discriminatory outcomes whilst strong oversight legislation is developed.

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An edition which quite simply shouts to the reform that's so long overdue in UK policing. Thank you for all your work.