Tuesday 19 December 2017

Criminal Injustice System

That young boy on the Today programme was younger than the girl who had taken the dirty picture of herself and then sent it to him, but absolutely nothing was done about her.

When the case was discussed on Jeremy Vine, there were repeated calls and emails from people saying that this was quite normal, with boys, and only boys, receiving cautions and worse that would remain on their records for life, even when they were younger than the girls, and even when the girls had taken and sent the pictures. And how it is possible to commit any sexual offence below the age of consent? Logically, it simply isn't.

As to race, more black and minority ethnic people go to prison because more of them are charged, and I am prepared to bet anything you like that mixed-race people are the most likely of all in that regard. The fault in all of this is not in the Police, but in the Crown Prosecution Service, which is staffed very heavily by people who do not like the black and minority ethnic, but who regard race-mixing as positively distasteful.

They object to black and minority ethnic people on all sorts of essentially social and cultural grounds. But they object to mixed-race people on principle. Not the Police. The CPS. If some sort of body is appointed to oversee the implementation of the Lammy Review, then I want a seat on it. I'm serious.

Be the change.

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