The police’s decision to reveal the ethnicity and nationality of suspects in high-profile crimes has had a “devastating effect” and is helping to spread prejudice, racial justice campaigners say.

The warning comes from the Runnymede Trust and 50 other groups demanding that the policy in England and Wales is scrapped, in a letter sent to the home secretary and police chiefs on Friday.

Their research shows that the policy introduced in August led to the term “asylum seeker” appearing in articles on serious crime five times more than before the policy change. Police ‘forced to disclose ethnicity of suspects to counter far-right speculation’ Read more

The groups say the public is being given a harmful impression that falsely links criminality with ethnicity or migration status. That i

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