That you read about this in the Daily Mail is irrelevant, the key point is what source were the Daily Mail using, and is there a success rate for evading of the police based on ethnicity?
I wasn't born in this country, but if there is statistical evidence that people from my community were disproportionately doing something good or bad, I'd want to know about it. I find it highly disconcerting the premise that ignoring issues is somehow going to placate extremist elements. If anything it provides more fuel and increases the toxicity and disillusionment.
The key point was on how the statistic in question could be and was easily being wilfully exaggerated (by Sadjady) and decontextualised. As in the case of the Daily Mail, who are notorious for this exact kind of stunt, and therefore it
is relevant when they are the primary 'source', even if interpreting someone else's data, for a claim.
And I'm not ignoring an issue; this sort of information is for the British Transport Police, and particularly the British Transport Police operating within the London Underground - because you know, this isn't information with regards to the country at large - to measure up and determine action upon, including whether or not it
actually is 'relative to the population' - as opposed to, again, merely the people
they're actually catching vs the overwhelming majority who are not and could be freaking anything (because the majority of cases go without even a suspect), and whether or not they need to prioritise resources accordingly. It is
not for someone looking to be an MEP to deliberately distort that data to unduly rationalise fearmongering of an ethnic minority.
At least he decided to step down.
