UK report shows black kids 6 times likelier to be strip-searched

27/3/2023 13:14

        Black children in England and Wales were six times more likely to be strip-searched by police, according to a report being released Monday that found children were failed by those sworn to protect them.
        
        Children’s Commissioner Rachel de Souza found nearly 3,000 children were strip-searched between 2018 and mid-2022 and more than half the searches were conducted without an appropriate adult present.
        
        The investigation was launched after a Black 15-year-old girl suspected of having marijuana was strip-searched at a London school in 2020 by two female officers without another adult present. The girl, identified as "Child Q," was menstruating and no drugs were found. A previous report said racism was a likely factor for the humiliating search.