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#30 Color of Policing
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Paul Wilson, a founding member of Black Police Association and former superintendent with London’s Metropolitan Police with 31 years of public service expounded on why changing policing is almost insurmountable. He described the Police Occupational Cultures, vulnerabilities within the police services, and the birth of policing in the U.S and U.K. Paul expressed that the greatest pandemic in London is the loss of young Black men because regardless of your location in England and Wales, Black people are being disproportionately stopped and searched by the police.
"But at that time, they had something called the "sus" law. Suspected persons? And it was a law that was prevalently used if you'd like to control young Black people. Suspected persons member - police officer, could stop any Black person or indeed anyone, and without a victim, and without or little corroboration to arrest that person for being suspected of about to commit an offense" - Paul Wilson
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