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More black victims killed by guns Police stop and search figures up
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Black people in the UK are more likely to be shot dead than Asian or white murder victims, government figures say. People stopped and searched by police increased by 9% to nearly a million in 2006-7, with black people seven times more likely to be stopped as whites.
Some 11% of murder victims were black, 8% Asian and 3% from other minorities; 27% of black victims died from shooting, compared to 5% of whites. Figures published by the Ministry of Justice also showed black UK murder victims were more likely to be shot than Asians or whites.
The statistics from the Ministry of Justice, for the three years ending in 2006/07, also showed a 3.7% rise in racist incidents recorded by police. Some 27% of black victims were shot, compared with 5% of white victims.
The number of people whom police stopped and searched also went up. The statistics for the three years up to 2006/07 also showed a 3.7% rise in racist incidents recorded by police.
Black people were seven times more likely to be stopped and searched than white people; Asians twice as likely. The rise was also reflected in the British Crime Survey.
The figures showed 955,000 people were stopped and searched in 2006/7 alone, an increase of 9% and the highest figure since 1998/9.
Asian people were twice as likely to be stopped and searched as white people, according to the report.