A VERY WORTHY CAMPAIGN
Posted on | February 15, 2010 | No Comments
Black Mental Health (BMH) UK is concerned about the over representation of innocent people from African Caribbean communities who are profiled on the national criminal DNA database.
Disturbingly 42% of the entire black male population living in the UK, and 77% of all young black men, are profiled on the database even though the Home Office’s own research shows that people from this group are less likely to commit a crime than their white counterparts.
Proposals in the new ‘Crime and Security Bill‘ have not addressed this and will have far reaching implications for the future civil liberties of Britain’s black communities. Currently every black family can be traced through the database - and anyone profiled on it can be turned down for a visa or a job but there is very little information about this out there.
BHM UK has set up a 10 Downing Street Petition to kick start a campaign calling for the removal of innocent people from the criminal database and the full implementation of the European Rulining on the retention of innocent DNA.
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