The i: Police stop and search is unjust


David Lammy said long-term solutions to the problems that foster crime needed to be found (PA)#


David Lammy says police stop and search is ‘unjust’ and ‘entertains a racist fantasy’ 

David Lammy is a member of Parliament and a Labour Party Politician who saw a problem with the police system through his own experience.

He says that the police force targets black people and it 'entertains a racist fantasy'. Mr Lammy recalled being “frisked, groped and harassed by the police” when he was 12 years old because officers said he matched the description of a thief. He was innocent however this memory had stay with him and he says, looking a the statistics clearly 'nothing has changed'.

He says that “As we speak, there will be young, white middle-class men smoking a joint at a campus university or having cocaine delivered to their dinner parties, but the police will be nowhere in sight.”, he strives for great change.

Hard news or Soft news?

In my opinion this is hard news seeing as it has to do with the law and the people who enforce it. It is a serious topic affecting young ethnic boys negatively.

News Values?

Amplitude: This movement will affects lots of people and many people can relate to this happening to them 

Click bait or Journalism?

It is not click bait seeing as it is a very serious topic and it is not just something to interest people because of gossip.


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