New figures for the number of stop and searches carried out by Essex Police reveal that black people are five times more likely to be stopped than white.Ethnic profiling data carried out in April, May and June showed officers conducted a total of 666 stop and searches. Fifty-four of those stopped were black while 449 were white.The figures mean the chance of a black person being stopped and searched in Essex between April and June this year was one in 641, whilst the chance of a white person...
