Police disclosing suspects’ ethnicity is fuelling prejudice, say campaigners
by Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#71P1R)
Fifty groups write letter calling for policy in high-profile cases in England and Wales to be scrapped
The police's decision to reveal the ethnicity and nationality of suspects in high-profile crimes has had a devastating effect" and is helping to spread prejudice, racial justice campaigners say.
The warning comes from the Runnymede Trust and 50 other groups demanding that the policy in England and Wales is scrapped, in a letter sent to the home secretary and police chiefs on Friday.
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