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Stop and search: A 大象传媒 reporter's own experience

If you're black, you're eight times more likely to be stopped and searched by a police officer than any other ethnic group.
Although it's been used around 300,000 times across England and Wales in the past year - only 17% of those led to an actual arrest.
The country's biggest force, the Metropolitan police service, says stop and search is vital to reduce knife crime - 21 teenagers have been stabbed to death in London alone so far this year.
Our reporter Noel Phillips was stopped and searched twice within a few months - after he complained about his treatment the Met apologised.
He then went on to get rare access to see police using the powers on patrol.

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