Ministers urged to scrap knife-crime ‘ASBOs’ after Black men and boys disproportionately hit
"Official results from the trial, which concluded in March, have not yet been published. But data obtained by StopWatch, a research and campaign group focussed on stop and search tactics and policing of marginalised communities, revealed that 138 KCPOs had been imposed as of February 2023 – with the youngest recipient just 13.
Holly Bird, StopWatch’s policy and research officer, said: “The data tells us exactly what we had expected: that these orders disproportionately target young Black men and boys.”
“The data tells us exactly what we had expected: that jigs like to carry a blade.”
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