BIZARRE: 2 - What They Never Told You

Police strip-searches of children are ‘racist and traumatising’, say charities

The Children’s Society and the Runnymede Trust have hit out in the wake of a damning report by Dame Rachel de Souza.

The Independent UK · Mar 26, 2023

Children as young as eight strip-searched by police, report finds

Black youths are disproportionately more likely to be strip-searched than their white peers, report finds

Evening Standard · Mar 26, 2023

Police strip searching children as young as eight, damning report finds

Study by Children’s Commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza found that more than a third of children strip-searched were black

The Independent UK · Mar 26, 2023