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British police forces are facing mounting criticism over a significant decline in recording criminal ethnicity, reaching its lowest point in 15 years amid concerns of racial sensitivity hampering proper documentation.
Recent Ministry of Justice statistics, obtained through Freedom of Information requests by former Conservative minister Neil O’Brien, reveal alarming trends in the documentation of offender ethnicities. The data shows that police failed to record the ethnicity of child sex offenders in 28.7 percent of cases last year, a stark increase from 11.6 percent in 2010. The pattern extends to broader sex crimes, where 29 percent of perpetrator ethnicities went unrecorded, nearly doubling from 15 percent previously.
A British man asks the police what he’s done wrong and then takes umbrage at the police touching him unprovoked.
Three police officers aggressively throw him to the floor and the female officer repeatedly forces his head into the concrete floor.
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The documentation gap has widened across various crime categories. For serious offenses including murder, rape, and grievous bodily harm, police omitted ethnicity records in 34.4 percent of cases last year, compared to 11.8 percent in 2010. Lower-level offenses showed similar patterns, with unrecorded ethnicities in 44 percent of robbery cases and 30.2 percent of shoplifting incidents. Drug-related offenses saw the most dramatic increase, with ethnicity recording failures jumping from eight percent to 39 percent.
This trend emerges against the backdrop of historical concerns about police reluctance to address child grooming gangs, particularly those involving Pakistani-heritage perpetrators targeting white girls, due to fears of racial stigmatization. A recent national police task force highlighted that Pakistanis have up to four times higher likelihood of involvement in child sexual grooming crimes, though their analysis was restricted by limited ethnicity data.
“It has to be wariness on the part of the authorities about recording and fear of being called racist,” O’Brien stated, noting the inconsistency of this trend across public services.
The British police who beat and arrest British patriots, retreat and then flee chased by Islamic crowd. It is now very clear who is in charge in UK. pic.twitter.com/ilFYGFcWK0
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Robert Jenrick, Conservative shadow justice secretary, called for comprehensive annual reporting to Parliament detailing convicted offenders’ ethnicity, nationality, visa, and asylum status. “The reduction in published data on the ethnicity of convicted criminals, in sharp contrast to data on age or sex, will only fuel perceptions that the British state is covering up the costs of migration,” he remarked.
A recent Telegraph analysis revealed that foreign nationals are 25 percent more likely to face imprisonment than British natives, with significant variations among nationalities. Albanians showed the highest incarceration rates at one in 50, followed by individuals from Kosovo, Vietnam, Algeria, Jamaica, Eritrea, Iraq, and Somalia. In contrast, German nationals demonstrated the lowest imprisonment rates, followed by Italians, Greeks, Americans, Sri Lankans, French, and Chinese.
These findings have intensified demands for stricter migration controls from countries associated with higher criminal activity among their nationals.