EXCL: Andy Burnham to challenge cops on joint enterprise law by LeahMahon_
The Mayor of Greater Manchester is aiming deal with how the police and criminal justice systems carries racial biasMANCHESTER MAYOR Andy Burnham has vowed to demand changes to tackle how joint enterprise law disproportionately targets Black people.the Mayor of Greater Manchester said that he will ask chief constable Stephen Watson to present a framework that will reform current policy and provide assessments on the risk of discrimination against Black communities.
Community organisations in the north including Kids of Colour and JENGba have been campaigning against the racist implications surrounding the controversial law. Mr Burnham has previously sought to tackle racial bias in the city when he commissioned the Achieving Race Equality Report. Elizabeth Cameron, the chair of the Greater Manchester Race Equality panel, said the findings went beyond unconscious bias and “into the realms of racism” embedded in Greater Manchester’s police force.“Probably every Black person from those communities has some form of video on their phone right now that they could show of community members who have been unfairly jostled by the police, aggressively treated,” she said.
He previously announced intentions to boost the recruitment of more Black officers into the force to help stamp out racism.
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