Members of ethnic minorities more likley to be stopped and searched by police, who can do this if they have 'reasonable suspicion' of wrongdoing. Black people 7x more likley to be stopped and searched than white people. Data from CSEW indicate similar patterns. Only small number of stop and searches result in arrest.
Under Terrorism Act (2000), police can stop and search people or vehicles without reasonable suspicion - since this, statistics show that Asians are more likely to be stopped and searched than any other ethnic group under the Terrorism Act.
Phillips and Bowling (2007) note that members of ethnic minority communities are more likley to think they are 'over-policed' than 'under-protected', and tend to have limited faith in the police
Chance of being involved in a taser incident varies w/ ethnicity. During 2010-14, police deployed taers over 38,000 times. Asians, chance of involvement was 3 in 10,000, and for white people 6, but for black people it was 18 in 10,0000 (Hoyle, 2015)
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