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10/01/2007: "White police afraid to enforce laws on minorities"

“I was told by one police officer that he did not ‘want to start a race riot’ by arresting Pakistani men for sexual offences,” Maureen said. During the six months that Jo was in the clutches of these men, they raped, beat and abused her to the point where, says her mother, she did not even know who she was any more. Eventually, after she was attacked by Hussain and Naveed with an iron bar, Jo somehow found the courage to report them to police, and they were arrested. The case took 16 months to come to court. In the meantime, other pimps, undeterred by the impending trial, continued to go about their business.

[ Too much political sensitivity means they lose their jobs if they do what is right, while a media fans the flames and profits. ]

http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2007/10/mothers_of_prev.php