The Extent of Racial Discrimination of the Police Against Black Londoners: Highlights of Racial Profiling and Injustices

Abstract

It is challenging to find police officers to do their work for a safer community without displaying some elements of prejudice, stereotypes, and biases. First, this paper aims to explore the extent of racial discrimination and racism found within the London Metropolitan Police Service. Second, to highlight the disproportionate statistical reports of police stops and searches conducted on black Londoners over time. Third, the author critically explores the contentious issue of black deaths in police custody over the years. This is a qualitative study and some findings are: it has proven very difficult to find a lasting solution to racial discrimination and racism in the police and wider society. The constructed alien other has not remained a societal emotive and unaddressed issue. The author calls for police culture found within the British police to be outlawed and makes racism in police a dismissable act in the police.