A police force has apologised after using an image of a black person dealing drugs in an anti-drugs leaflet.
Cumbria Constabulary said it accepted it used a poor choice of image in the leaflet, which appealed for information about crimes. Campaigning organisation Anti Racist Cumbria said the image perpetuated "racist stereotypes" and some black people felt "watched".A police spokesman said: "We are aware of concerns raised regarding a leaflet which includes an image of a black person dealing drugs."Immediate action has been taken to remove this material from further use and additional processes have been put in place to ensure appropriate imagery is used in future material.
"This kind of imagery perpetuates racist stereotypes and could put communities under suspicion for no reason. "We must consider that only around one per cent of our population is black and we have already heard from some local residents that they fear being more 'watched' as a direct result of this leaflet."It's right that police reach out to encourage vigilance. However, when that imagery implies that dealers are black that could create division where there isn't any."
Fuck sake! This country is totally broken. Why can't the drug dealer be black? Or white? Or Welsh? Or Catholic? Why does every single thing get blown out of proportion? And made into some sort of a racist action. I fear for my children. I really do 😩😩😩
It’s happening to often!!!!
apology is good. , move forwards
So it’s not racist if they put a white person on the leaflet ,so makes it right for one but not for the other double standards personally I don’t care but getting a bit stupid now
Take a point and bring it up to absurdity. Ancient tradition monks of Tibet.
FFS.!!!
Must rin in the division a Cumbria police officer lied about my speed in a witness statement. I was told that as a person of colour I wouldn't able to prove he lied despite him having zero evidence..its nonsense happy to provide his details
So if it was a white person…. Would we care? Err nope…
Always after!
Came here to see all the white people being like 'I don't see the problem' I wasn't disappointed 🤣🤣
Could they please say sorry for all people in tv adverts too ?
Trying to work out who’s more woke. BBC for putting this story out. The woke police. Or the woke idiots offended by it.
Sorry but someone decided this. This is “conscious” racism and is not confined to this.
If they brief a professional photographer with this challenge I'm sure they could find a way to avoid singling out any race - picture them from behind, or in a darkened car maybe. The kids on scooters who do drop-offs near me wear helmets and gloves.
What is the world coming to! Woke parade again! Maybe black people should stop selling drugs then
Funny that, because when Thames Valley put up pictures of convicted drug dealers on our local pages it’s nearly always a black lad. The stereotype exists for a reason. In the same way if they did a leaflet about city banking fraud it would be a white public schoolboy.
This is beyond cringeworthy.
Shedding a tear for all the poor oppressed white males in the comments
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