Black People More Likely To Suffer From Police Use Of Force In UK - Statistics

Black People More Likely to Suffer From Police Use of Force in UK - Statistics

Black people are more likely to suffer from police use of force in England and Wales, the Home Office said on Thursday in a report on the situation in the year ending March 2018.

MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 13th December, 2018) Black people are more likely to suffer from police use of force in England and Wales, the Home Office said on Thursday in a report on the situation in the year ending March 2018.

"Subjects perceived as White accounted for 73% of subjects involved in use of force incidents, but were only involved in 51% of incidents which involved police use of firearms. In comparison, subjects perceived as Black or Asian accounted for 12% and 5% of subjects, but were involved in proportionally more incidents which involved police use of firearms (26% and 12% respectively)," the report said.

Black people account only for 3.3 percent of the population of England and Wales, which means that they face police violence more often than white people, who account for 86 percent of these territories' population.

The report also said that there were 313,000 recorded incidents in which a police officer used force against individuals.

"The most common reason force was used by an officer was to protect themselves (214,000 incidents). The most common impact factor was the subject being under the influence of alcohol (127,000 incidents). The most common outcome was the subject being arrested (203,000 incidents)," the report added.

The ethnic and racial dimension of UK police treatment remains a controversial topic in the country. Last year, Scotland Yard's Strategic Lead for Diversity and Inclusion Victor Olisa said that black people were still on the whole treated worse by police than white people.