Notice it says “outgoing” president.
This is the National Black Police Association in the UK
Call to search more black people (inthenews.co.uk)
More black people must be searched to stop gun crime, according to the head of the Black Police Association.
Keith Jarrett, outgoing president of the National Black Police Association (NBPA), is expected to press for police to use a stop and search approach with people from black communities in a speech at the NBPA’s annual conference in Bristol this Wednesday.
Though Mr Jarrett’s remarks are opposed to the NBPA’s official stance, he said: “The black community is telling me we have to… look at this”, reports the Observer.
Chief Superintendent Ali Dizaei, the NBPA’s legal adviser, criticised Mr Jarrett’s remarks, telling the BBC that increasing the use of stop and search would be “wrong”.
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Mr Jarrett told the Observer: “From the return that I am getting from a lot of black people, they want to stop these killings, these knife crimes, and if it means their sons and daughters are going to be inconvenienced by being stopped by the police, so be it.”
“It’s not going to go down very well with my audience, many of whom are going to be black,” he admitted.
“We have talked about disproportionate use of stop-and-search in the past, but what I am proposing is quite the reverse,” he explained. (more…)
Alright now. Let’s get all the name calling out now:
You Uncle Tom
You Sell-out
You Oreo
You White man’s boy
You Clarence Thomas reincarnate
You Self-hater
You House negro
You Lawn Jockey
Yadda, yadda, yadda.
#1 assumption in the mind of critics: “He must be married to a White woman.”
Okay, let’s move on…please!
Instead of me launching into yet another commentary on an issue that I have discussed many times on this site, here are some links that will give you some background on the growing problem of crime in the U.K. in its minority community.
Gun crime ‘threat’ to UK minorities
By Dominic Casciani (2003) [source]
[...] Lee Jasper, now the London mayor’s race chief, said the police and communities could not compete with the resources of drug gangs in the effort to keep disillusioned young black men away from crime.
He said with London’s crack economy now worth an estimated £500m, government needed to pour money into community activism if they were going to stand a chance of turning back gun and drug-related crime in the most deprived areas.
April’s national gun amnesty saw 40,000 weapons handed in to police.
But only a tiny minority of the firearms were surrendered in the target areas of Operation Trident, the Metropolitan Police’s unit focusing on gun crime blighting black communities.
“We have got real issues with drugs and gun crime,” said Mr Jasper, also an adviser to Trident.
“This is the biggest threat to the black community since its arrival here.”
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Blair blames spate of murders on black culture
Patrick Wintour and Vikram Dodd
Thursday April 12, 2007
The Guardian [Source]
Tony Blair yesterday claimed the spate of knife and gun murders in London was not being caused by poverty, but a distinctive black culture. His remarks angered community leaders, who accused him of ignorance and failing to provide support for black-led efforts to tackle the problem.
One accused him of misunderstanding the advice he had been given on the issue at a Downing Street summit.
Black community leaders reacted after Mr Blair said the recent violence should not be treated as part of a general crime wave, but as specific to black youth. He said people had to drop their political correctness and recognise that the violence would not be stopped “by pretending it is not young black kids doing it”.
Here is the part most people did not hear.
It needed to be addressed by a tailored counter-attack in the same way as football hooliganism was reined in by producing measures aimed at the specific problem, rather than general lawlessness.
[...]
He called on black people to lead the fight against knife crime. He said that “the black community – the vast majority of whom in these communities are decent, law abiding people horrified at what is happening – need to be mobilised in denunciation of this gang culture that is killing innocent young black kids”.
Mr Blair said he had been moved to make his controversial remarks after speaking to a black pastor of a London church at a Downing Street knife crime summit, who said: “When are we going to start saying this is a problem amongst a section of the black community and not, for reasons of political correctness, pretend that this is nothing to do with it?” Mr Blair said there needed to be an “intense police focus” on the minority of young black Britons behind the gun and knife attacks. The laws on knife and gun gangs needed to be toughened and the ringleaders “taken out of circulation”.
And of course the Black minister acknowledged later that he was taken out of context (translation–the drop squad got to him).
Guess who else had something to say?
Keith Jarrett, chair of the National Black Police Association, whose members work with vulnerable youngsters, said: “Social deprivation and delinquency go hand in hand and we need to tackle both. It is curious that the prime minister does not mention deprivation in his speech.”
What a difference a few months and the fact you are leaving your post can make.
Broken families ‘fuelling black crime’
By Philip Johnston, Home Affairs Editor 15/06/2007 [Link]
Black boys in lone parent families develop a “father hunger” that can tip them into crime, MPs say today.
Six in 10 black Caribbean youngsters live in single parent households, invariably with their mothers, and this is three times the proportion in the white population.
The absence of a male role model is seen as a key factor in the “over-representation” of young black men in the criminal justice system.
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Figures cited by the committee indicate that 59 per cent of black Caribbean children and 54 per cent of mixed race youngsters are looked after by a lone parent. In the white British population, the figure is 22 per cent.
The Rev Nims Obunge, an evangelical pastor in north London, said that ”an acknowledged breakdown in the social fabric of many black families is most typically exemplified by the lack of a strong father figure in the home”.
[...]
Some psychologists argued against stereotyping the Afro-Caribbean community and said fathers could be playing a positive role without being present.
But young people themselves and community workers made a direct link between the absence of a positive male role model and involvement in gangs. One witness said: “If they are not getting the love from home they see it as the only love they can get is from the street.’
In order to gain a better understanding of this issue, you have to back a little over 20 years to both the Brixton and Handsworth riots–
The legacy of the Brixton riots
I think the last article I excerpted on the high single-parented households within this community play a very key role in the the seemingly never-ending cycle of crime. Just like here in the US, this inevitably leads to poverty–not the other way around. Enter the “father hunger”.
I think that it is also important to note here that since the Scarman Report (a report commissioned by government to find out the reasons behind the meltdown that led to the riot of ’81), law enforcement and other branches within UK government has made some major strides incorporating multiculturalism by adding more people of color to their ranks. The lack of a diverse law enforcement (like here in the U.S.) was seen as part of the problem that fueled distrust with law enforcement. While government has made some adjustments, the other side of the coin–family structure– has continued to deteriorate without a public inquiry to hold them accountable to positive change. PC has been used for over two decades to slam government ONLY for its failings. I think now folks are beginning to see that “father hunger” is the other elephant in the room.
When Jarrett says “We have talked about disproportionate use of stop-and-search in the past, but what I am proposing is quite the reverse”, I am very curious as to how his plan will differ from the ‘sus’ law that let to the 1981 riots.
