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The police persecution of middle-class women

I cried. I felt dirty afterwards. In fact, I went home and had a shower

20 June 2015

9:00 AM

20 June 2015

9:00 AM

Aren’t the police getting younger nowadays — and ruder, and scruffier and more intolerant of middle-class women? In other words, why am I always getting pulled over for no apparent reason? If I were a member of any other minority group I would be complaining to my community leaders of terrible bias and of hideously unfair ‘stop and search’ policies.

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