In regards to the Criminal Justice System, how can we reduce the representation of BAME individuals on the conviction side and increase the representation on the preventative side such as Policing, Lawyers and Forensics for example?
Sheku Bayoh died shortly after he was arrested by up to nine police officers in the early hours of 3 May 2015 on a quiet street in Kirkcaldy, a small town on the east coast of Scotland. Sheku’s mother had encouraged him to move to Scotland to be near his sister because she thought a young black man would be safer in Scotland than in London.
There is a tendency to think racism in our societies will lessen over time, and that attitudes and outcomes will inevitably improve. This belief endures despite frequent and sobering evidence of deeply entrenched racial inequalities in Britain.
Colleagues in the International Network of Scholars and Activists for Afrikan Reparations (INOSAAR) have been collaborating with the campaign founded by the Pan-Afrikan Reparations Coalition in Europe (PARCOE) and the Stop the Maangamizi: We Charge Genocide/Ecocide Campaign (SMWeCGEC).
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