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Slide 3
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Poor and limited housing with little or no facilities led to
high levels of crime and unemployment
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This isn’t because they are taken out of context
for my convenience in this presentation; it is to show that on the surface they are both
referring to similar events that occurred within the same country, and that address the same
issue of racial prejudice which particularly concerns the police force
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Slide 4
(Picture of 1981 riots)
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This system involved 120 out of uniform police
officers stopping and searching people in the street on only the suspicion of wrongdoing
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The prejudice felt by the Brixton community resulted in an explosion of anger in
and resistance against the police force in Brixton
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Over 82 arrests were made, and police reports assumed that
about 5000 people were involved in some way with the riots
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 Fryer,  Staying  Power:  The  History  of  Black  People  in  Britain  (London:  Pluto  Press,  1984)  p
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On April 10th 1981, police physically harmed a man outside a school and caused
serious head injury to a parent with a truncheon and arrested them for obstruction
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‘ The next day, Brixton exploded’
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This in itself represents the on-going and unforgotten racist
prejudice that was once alive in these places and therefore why it was in these cities that the
riots were able to thrive
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In this
year, on the 22nd of April, Stephen Lawrence was murdered while he waiting for a bus and
just under 14 years later two of the five suspected murderers were sentenced to prison
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Evidence against the police came forward, such as the police receiving
over 20 tip offs for Stephen Lawrence’s murderers within 48 hours, yet they did not make
any arrests
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The results of the
Macpherson report were invaluable paving stones towards justice for the family of Stephen
Lawrence because the report was a turning point in history and their son’s case was the
central focus
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Stephen’s murderers were apparently singing racist chants, and it’s clear that Lawrence was
murdered due to his African- Caribbean ethnicity, because his murderers were selfproclaimed white extremists
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‘My son was stereotyped by the police, he was black then he must be a criminal and
they set about investigating him and us’
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It might be fair to assume that this was
because the orders were perhaps suited to what the police wanted to be doing which was
arresting people they suspected to be guilty
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 Macpherson  of  Cluny,  The  Stephen  Lawrence  Enquiry:  Report  of  an  Inquiry  by  Sir  William  Macpherson  
of  Cluny  (London,  1999)  C
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Images of marches that took place in the name of justice for
Stephen Lawrence are really similar to descriptions of the Deptford march that took place
from Deptford to Central London which demanded ‘justice for black people and an end to
racist murders’
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The reports were performed by respected and informed
professionals and not left in the hands of the police, whose conclusions would have
undoubtedly been biased
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Britain is clearly serious about solving the
racial prejudice problems in its communities and an obvious step taken was the Scarman
report of the Brixton riots
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It concluded that ‘there
must be an unequivocal acceptance of the problem of institutional racism’
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This was a
step forward for equality in comparison to the Scarman report which stated in its conclusion
that ‘the police did not create social deprivation or racial disadvantage: they are not
responsible’
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The report also determined that the suggested steps within the Scarman report in
aiding the countries prejudice problems had not been seriously addressed
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 Macpherson  of  Cluny,  The  Stephen  Lawrence  Enquiry:  Report  of  an  Inquiry  by  Sir  William  Macpherson  
of  Cluny  (London,  1999)  C
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 Lord  Scarman,  The  Scarman  Report:  The  Brixton  Disorders  10-­‐12  April,  1981
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It drove the subject of policing into the main light, and
some suggestions were taken on board and put into practice
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Even though the reaction was mainly positive, the fact that Scarman stated in his
report that ‘the direction and policies of the Metropolitan Police are not racist’ limited it’s
potential of being accepted by everyone
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 Lord  Scarman,  The  Scarman  Report:  The  Brixton  Disorders  10-­‐12  April,  1981
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The fact that (look at board) was
probably the reason that the Home Secretary immediately produced a response of how the 70
recommendations the report included were going to be used
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We shouldn’t forget that Macpherson’s use of the term
‘institutionalized racism’ will have been the push that the police force needed to emerge out
of their hiding places
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The Scarman and the Macpherson reports tell Britain a lot of negative things about the
institutionalised racism that we as a country have lived through, and also highlights a large
problem that white British citizens should take on board which is that trust in the police and
the law should be cautiously placed, and never taken as the unswerving truth or good
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The reports do tell us that Britain, and its politicians do take these events seriously,
that it does investigate them and does indeed try and evolve for the better
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We should remember and be grateful that Britain also has an accessible
political construction, which enabled Stephen Lawrence’s family to arrange a national
movement to make their loss and fight clear to the country
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