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What is institutional racism, give an example?

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Institutional racism is when a large institution is being racist to prevent the cause of justice or two discriminate against people, and example of this the Metropolitan Police Force on the Stephen Lawrence.

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Explain Stop and Search patterns?

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Members of minority ethnic groups are likely to be stopped and searched by police. Police can do this if they have reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing. Compared with white people, black people are seven times more likely to be stopped and searched and Asians are twice as likely, however mot many of these stop and searches result in arrest.

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