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Originally Posted by Cherry7
Wikipedia says..
Young men, particularly young black men, are commonly stereotyped as engaging in criminal behaviour
Past research shows that the media misrepresents the picture of crime and that stories involving violent and sexual offenses are over-reported beyond the official statistics
Maybe you should change your newspaper.
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from the very page you quoted..
In 2007, after a series of murders committed by black people, prime minister Tony Blair attributed them to a distinctive black culture: "the black community (...) need to be mobilised in denunciation of this gang culture that is killing innocent young black kids. But we won't stop this by pretending it isn't young black kids doing it." Figures from the black community criticised his remarks.
Gang involvement is said to be a "continuing problem" in the community. African-Caribbean people are underrepresented in white-collar crime.
Some commentators have argued that the issue of black people and crime is hidden away or downplayed, and that the fear of accusations of racism may have contributed to this.
The Metropolitan Police Service is one of the few police forces which has collected statistics on gang rape. Filmmaker Sorious Samura compiled 29 such incidents involving young people from January 2006 to March 2009, and found that, of 92 people convicted, 66 were black or mixed race. Samura said he found it "impossible to ignore the fact that such a high proportion were committed by black and mixed-race young men".
Maybe you need to be less PC blinkered, so left-it-hurts, eh?