Mass stop and search by police doesn't reduce crime, says study

Research released following FoI request after debate between home secretary and Met police chief over effectiveness of tacticThe use of large “surge” stop and search operations by the police has no discernible effect in reducing crime, according to newly released Home Office research.The study looks at the mass use of stop and search by London’s Metropolitan police to tackle knife crime in 2008/09, at a time when officers were carrying out a search once every 20 seconds on aver