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Research show that 27% of the entire black population are currently on the database compared with 9% of all Asians and 6% of the white population. 57% of innocent samples taken in London alone are from people from African Caribbean communities. Disturbingly 42% of the entire black male population living in the UK, and 77% of all young black men, are profiled on the database even though the Home Office’s own research shows that people from this group are less likely to commit a crime than their white counterparts.

This is an injustice that must be addressed within the law. The Crime and Security Bill as currently drafted violates Race Relations laws by contravening the statutory duty of public authorities to promote race equality. Rather making race quality central to the way police officers and the Home Office work, this Bill will further damage race relations and minority communities’ trust of the law enforcement agencies.

Also proposals in this Bill to continue to collect and store innocent DNA fundamentally blurs the line between innocence and guilt, this is unacceptable and unlawful.

Current signatories

Matilda MacAttram, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Paul Lawrence
• Adrian Spence
• alex jaiyesimi
• Nahid Aslam
• Zahid Ali
• Huda Ahmed
• Shereen Gacem
• Martin Dixon
• Michael John Cameron
• Pauline Sykes
• Yvonne Stewart-Taylor
• Di Newman
• Ania Sagajllo
• Joe Aldred
• David Okoro
• Olu Alake
• ROCHELLE DAVIDSON
• Alicia Spence
• Janet Clarke-Lewis
• S.McQueen
• errol murray
• Glenford Gordon
• Rev.Peter Pennant
• Sylvia Ocansey
• Tinuola Adeyemi
• Marcus Lasance
• Chinyere Inyama
• David Mery
• NUMBER 6 (THE VILLAGE)
• Drew Christie
• Angie Robinson
• Sonia Wiliams
• Archie Graham
• Danielle Humphrey
• Jan Flaherty
• Lily Flahertry
• Erykah Brackenbury
• Luis Javier Freyre Alcántara
• Richard Leafe
• Beccy Filler
• Samuel Whiteley
• Ashok Argent-Katwala
• Dr Alan Halner
• F. Sandler
• Audra Brown
• Aisha Hassan
• Dominic Bascombe
• Funmi Oye
• Dr Suman Fernando
• A N MboueMbou
• ik omoigiade
• Michelle Bryan
• Lester Holloway
• Michaela Young
• Stacey Balfour-Richardson
• Berhane Barkneh
• I . Brown
• Samantha Stevens
• Angela Brown
• Arthur Torrington
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• Marika .Sherwood
• Sharon Smith
• Diana Paton
• L A Wilson
• Hilary Banks
• Peter Taiwo
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• saad ahmed
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