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I think statistics are always skewed in this sort of argument. I think Amy Woods above has a fair point, but I think it is also obscured by the mixing of statistics. BAME youths more likely to get stopped, so says the article, compare the number of youths stopped from that entire community, to the entire community of white people in the country.

Seems odd, I do not think my dear old grandmother of 86 is likely to be out carrying a knife. I do not believe my friends that live in private mansions in i.e. Chelsea, Henley,Winchester, Chichester etc etc are out dealing drugs on the streets (nor for that matter do they ever walk anywhere)...yet somehow, both of these groups are counted as a part of the whole.

Same with the prison statistics.

Would be better to make proper statistical analyses. What number of people in poverty stricken and high crime areas are BAME, and what percentage of those are being stopped as compared to the people living in those areas, not on a national level, but on a local level.

Same with prison statistics, what is the proportion of BAME inmates as compared to the areas from which they come. Where I live, it is 70% non-white, do the statistics for criminal incarceration reflect that adequately, or is there still a bias?

That would be useful to know.