Oh I'm by no means saying that South London's minority communities are more likely, person for person, to be fare evaders. They are just more likely to be users of bendy buses, therefore the requirement for, for instance;
the existence of systematic yet covert policies and practices that have the effect of disadvantaging certain racial or ethnic groups
would be met, in this case.
Scum is scum is scum, regardless of their colour.
I agree, but this doesn't get us away from the fact that in many parts of London, to clamp down on 'dishonesty and poor civics' is, de facto, to clamp down overwhelmingly disproportionately on one particular racial group or another (though I note Lambeth got away with evicting those squatters - I will defer to the Housing Officer concerned if he wants to chip in, but I thought they were overwhelmingly black).
I'm going to stop now before I suggest that having a police force is equivalent to class war, since you clearly know that isn't what I believe, but it is the direction that argument takes you.
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Date: 2006-02-21 11:37 am (UTC)the existence of systematic yet covert policies and practices that have the effect of disadvantaging certain racial or ethnic groups
would be met, in this case.
Scum is scum is scum, regardless of their colour.
I agree, but this doesn't get us away from the fact that in many parts of London, to clamp down on 'dishonesty and poor civics' is, de facto, to clamp down overwhelmingly disproportionately on one particular racial group or another (though I note Lambeth got away with evicting those squatters - I will defer to the Housing Officer concerned if he wants to chip in, but I thought they were overwhelmingly black).
I'm going to stop now before I suggest that having a police force is equivalent to class war, since you clearly know that isn't what I believe, but it is the direction that argument takes you.