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Article: `Racist CPS prosecuting too many black and Asian people'
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 27, 2001
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TOO MANY black and Asian people are being taken to court because
of a culture of racism endemic in the Crown Prosecution Service,
according to a damning report published yesterday.
White prosecutors are accused of failing to weed out "weak cases"
against ethnic minority defendants by not "correcting the bias in
police charging decisions".
The independent 18-month inquiry into the CPS also found
"unwarranted complacency" over the possibility of race discrimination
in the prosecution process.
This culture, said Sylvia Denman, the report's author, "risked
jeopardising" the CPS's promise to provide a better service to
victims and witnesses of crime as well as improving relations with
the ...