NSW police disproportionately target Indigenous people in strip searches

Exclusive: Indigenous Australians represented 12% of such searches in two years despite being 3% of population

Indigenous Australians are significantly over-represented in the number of strip searches conducted by police in New South Wales, representing 12% of all searches in a two-year period despite only making up 3.4% of the state's population.

The Guardian can reveal that between 2016 and 2018 police in NSW conducted 1,183 strip searches on Indigenous people in the state, including one 10-year-old and two 11-year-olds.