We share the concerns of the Runnymede Trust and the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants that the proposal to allow police to reveal the ethnicity and migration status of crime suspects has scant regard for community safety (Campaigners criticise UK plans to reveal suspects’ ethnicity and migration status, 10 August).
After another summer of far-right discontent, the Institute of Race Relations, which monitors national developments, is concerned about the focus in some communities on vigilante justice, often justified in terms of hunting down paedophiles.
