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Equality in the police? Well, roughly 1 in 7 cops are BAME. Also, roughly 1 in 7 people in the UK are BAME. There's equality.

Glad to see the people doing the hiring aren't breaking the law in an obvious way.

Also, the police did that ridiculous knee thing. They wanted to demonstrate that they are not racist. I guess taking the knee is something racist people do to pretend they're not racist, right?

TIL that pretending not to be racist while being racist never happens. Also that if a few people in a group do something, that represents how the entire group feels.

Besides, it's not as binary as you seem to think. Equality is not the polar opposite of racism. You can think all races are equal while being sexist. You can be racist while promoting equality between sexes.

Well done at being a pedant here. The opposite of racism is (racial) equality. Sorry for not spelling that obvious thing out since it's obviously an important part of the obvious point of that post.

I want to see evidence, unless it requires any active effort on my part, like reading.

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Serious question. Did you real all that first article that you linked? Do you expect me to? Is there any direct evidence of racism? Or is it yet more speculation?

What direct evidence are you looking for exactly? Would this count? I appreciate it's more than two sentences long, so I hope it doesn't put you over your reading limit.

Here's an example (p. 24-25)

Consider that Ministry of Justice Data recorded for 2011/12 shows that 91% of stop and searches (under PACE Section 1) in England and Wales did not lead to an arrest. Jason’s experience would be among the 9% that did. Even fewer arrests, less than 10% of that 9% (or 0.9% overall) result in a conviction. Racialised people, especially Black people, are regularly subjected to this humiliating intrusion of personal space and violation of body autonomy.

The reason given by police for over 50% of the PACE Section 1 stop and searches in London in 2013/14 is drugs. Release, a drugs and human rights charity recently conducted a study into drug policing called The Numbers in Black and White. It found that people who identified as ‘White’ were twice as likely to use or have taken drugs than people of African heritage. However, in London, people described as ‘Black’ were six times more likely to be stopped and searched for drugs.