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What happens when the police stop and search a bishop?

15 December 2018

9:00 AM

15 December 2018

9:00 AM

I’m not surprised that black people are still eight times more likely than white people to be stopped and searched by the police, despite the less frequent use of those powers. It happened to me regularly in the 1990s. One rainy night I was driving through the City of London in one of the cars loaned to bishops for their work, when a constable flagged me down.

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