I can see that you
@villain have a deep rooted issue with police but Ill try to explain the best I can why a lot of what you're saying is not really true and goes deeper than plain black and white statistics.
First thing is stop and search and the lop sided statistics towards black people, I just wanna point out this comment
Remember that most stop and searches done by police will have been conducted as a result of a phone call made to police by members of the public. That is a very important factor, think about that long and hard, think about society as a whole and the race related issues that are at hand. Factor in things like the racial make up of knife crime victims and then start questioning why this is happening? It goes far too deep to just try and look at it in the way in which you're trying to look at it.
How do you identify when someone is 'suspect looking'?
Maybe this is a question that needs to be asked of the members of public who are calling police?
Now onto your comments about
the police officers are often very aggressive, with no regard for your possession or personal space. As someone who has been involved in hundreds of stop and searches, whether that be seeing, doing or being on the end of I can categorically state I have never seen what you speak of happen, ever. That isn't me saying it doesn't happen but to suggest its 'often' it false. I think you've fallen into that mindset of "If its happened to me or someone I know it must be happening to everyone"
Moving onto
Firstly, 17% of Stop & Search ends in arrest.
That's not a significant enough number that it justifies the breakdown in trust between the police & local community.
Firstly not all stop and searches that don't end in an arrest are a negative s and s. Police don't have to always arrest people who have committed a crime. For example, a police officer stop and searches someone who is found with a small wrap of cannabis, this person DOES NOT need to be arrested, there are disposal measures in place, so whilst it still gets recorded as a crime it doesn't lead to arrest.
So not only have we found that stop & search is not effective, doesn't deter crime
This is quite far fetched and I'm not sure how you've come to this conclusion, it definitely does deter crime. I really don't know what you're expecting, do you expect 100% of stop and searches to end with police finding AK47's on the searched persons? Stop and search should never ever be judged based on the arrest rate. If it did, we'd all be fecked.
I'm inclined to believe it's part of their training.
Again, just something that is completely false.
A 'bad apple' only exists because the system allows them to exist - for example my brother wrote a complaint to the local police, and received a call to say they had received the complaint, nothing further after that - he didn't get questioned, they didn't care to look at his injuries or physio reports, nothing. He followed up with them 3x and they said it was 'in progress', until eventually they decided amongst themselves that no further action was to be taken'
So even if the cops involved were 'bad apples' their colleagues enabled them, making them bad apples too.
Again, just so wide of the mark, trust me when I tell you this, police are scrutinized like you wouldn't believe. As they should be mind.
Again, I will tell you of my own experiences, I have received complaints, some completely absurd yet I was scrutinized and questioned. I had to provide a statement, justify my actions. These things also take a long time, I don't know why people think these things will be completed in 20 minutes.
Even someone who makes 20 complaints against police a month will be acknowledged and their complaints looked into so I have to say not only are you wide of the mark with this bit, it's actually complete and utter nonsense.
This, it's not perfect but how can it be? But it's a lot better than it was 20/30 years ago.