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MOSS SIDE INITIATIVE
THE REPORT OF THE MOSS SIDE INITIATIVE 1984 TO 1986
BLACK PEOPLE IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
“There is evidence which shows that young Black people are often charged with public order offences, which are committted after the arrival on the scene of the Police Officer.”
Normally an offence would take place. The police would be called and they would then make an arrest for that offence.
In the black community in contrast, the police were there, they aggravated the situation by handling it badly and ended up making an arrest in response to the situation that they provoked.
Frequently that arrest was for such as “Resisting Arrest”. However when there were no other charges accompanying this, it might be said that rather than resisting a non existent arrest, they were rightfully protesting a wrongful arrest.
It seems that in modern times, this is increasingly happening in the wider community, in situations such as town centres, when the police eg approach people leaving pubs and club, drinkers, homeless people etc. aggravating the situation and eventually arresting these individuals. When I watch those documentaries on the policing of town centres, I repeatedly hear the phrase from the police “I have had enough of this” with the officers then arresting people for similar kinds of Public Order matters, in effect with the officers ‘taking offence’, rather than the police arriving in response to any specific offences against the public.
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