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| Britain |
| Fury over leaked 'racist' police report |
| 2006-06-10 |
| A leaked Metropolitan Police report, which allegedly concluded Muslim officers were more likely to become corrupt than their white counterparts, today sparked condemnation. The internal report, cited by the Guardian, aimed to investigate the level of complaints against ethnic police and apparently blamed cultural and family backgrounds for the difference. The paper, written by an Asian officer, was said by the newspaper to have concluded: "Asian officers and in particular Pakistani Muslim officers are under greater pressure from the family, the extended family ... and their community against that of their white colleagues to engage in activity that might lead to misconduct or criminality." It allegedly said there was a cash culture in British Pakistani life in which "assisting your extended family is considered a duty". In addition, it apparently recommended anti-corruption training for Asian officers. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #3 The report was written by an "Asian" officer (which in Britain means Pakistani or Indian as well as Asia Pacifican). How could this be racist? |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2006-06-10 08:42 |
| #2 "We have not solved racism. It is covert, all we have done is driven it underground." So research showing the Pakistanis are more likely to be corrupt is evidence the Brits are racist? Uh-huh. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2006-06-10 08:25 |
| #1 So bottom line is that some muslim Pakistani officers put their islamic laws and traditions ahead of British law. Not that surprising. Disagreeing with conclusions doesn't make them wrong. Facts are facts. Objections sound like so many cats scratching in the litterbox. |
| Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-06-10 07:09 |