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> Discrimination faced by lesbian, gay and bisexual people, some facts and figures

Racism – some facts and figures:

• Ethnic minority people are more likely to be the victims of general crime. For example, of the 1,890 homicides in 1996-99, 9% of the victims were black and 6% were Asian, compared with 1.6% and 2.7% in the 1991 general population. Of the 2,297 homicides recorded in 1999-2002, 11% of the victims were black and 6% were Asian.
  
  
• Racist incidents recorded by the police in England and Wales amounted to:
  
  6,459 in 1990
  3,878 in 1997/8
  23,040 in 1998/9
  47,814 in 1999/00
  53,090 in 2000/01
  54,350 in 2001/02
  
  However, the British Crime Survey 2002 estimated that the actual number of racist incidents fell from about a third of a million to about a quarter of a million between 1995/9.
  
  
• Ethnic minority communities have least confidence in the Criminal Justice Services than any other public service.
  
  
• Members of ethnic minority groups are at considerably higher risk of being victims of racially motivated incidents than white people. The highest risk was for Pakistani and Bangladeshi people at 4.2%, followed by 3.6% for Indian people and 2.2% for black people. This compared with 0.3% for white people. (ONS/British Crime Survey, Home Office Research Study 223).
  
  
• Between 1998 and 2002, the proportion of black and minority ethnic people entering jail rose at 8 times the rate of white people.
  
  
• Black British people now make up 12% of the prison population and only 2% of the population as a whole. In June 2002, BME groups accounted for 22% of the male prison population.
  
  
• Between 2002-02 people of black origin were 8 times more likely than white people to be stopped and searched by the police in England and Wales . People of Asian origin were 3 times more like to be stopped and searched than white people.
  
  
• Black Groups and those of Asian origin remain significantly over-represented in police arrest rates in England and Wales – 9% of those arrested in 2001 were of black origin and 5% of Asian origin, well above their respective proportions of the total population.