Ethnic And Communities Of The West Indian Standing Council

previous four days demonstrations and looting, out of 118 arrested, more than half were black. According to Lord Scarman, appointed to chair the public inquiry into this riot, he calls them an ‘out bust of anger and resentment’ by young black people against the police (Calvin, 2016). Ethnic and communities criminalization finds its roots in 1960 when a report to the West Indian standing council alleged that the police indulged in practices they referred as ‘nigger hunting’ (Weichselbaum, 2001; Hussain Bagguley, 2012). It showed the pre-existing beliefs about their supposed criminality. Black people are subject to extraordinary policing, and the media, politician and criminal justice referred to as ‘social problem’ (HM Government, 2014).†¦show more content†¦It is an axiom of the liberal culture in policing that the police use of force should be essential (Mohan, 2015; Widdup Davenport, 2009). In 1991 according to Institute of Race Relations Paper, there were 16 cases of blacks highly reported between 1969 to 1991 in custody (Bowling Phillips, 2003). The maximum force was used to blacks than others causing these numbers to increase, recently in the UK, the number of people who have died in custody has increased by 32% in the p revious year, to add on that the majority of those who die to consist of blacks and ethnic minorities (Hannan et al., 1998). Religious discrimination has been another issue, Muslim in the United Kingdom have been victims of negative perceptions. Since 9/11 and 7/7 people developed’ islamophobia culture (O’Brien Kevin, 2003). Social psychology research suggests that there is nothing that in principle prevents the likelihood, given certain circumstance of any group becoming perpetrators of unfair treatment by religion (Calvin, 2016). The over presentation of islamophobia culture by the media become a moral panic over world (Grobler, 2013). Police view Islam as individuals with devious minds, prone to radicalizations and terrorists. A fairly consistent body of research shows that relative to other religious groups in Britain, Muslim report and experience discrimination of high magnitude than any other religious groups (Grobler,