Rise in proportion of BAME suspects on Met’s gangs matrix

Nearly nine in 10 suspected gang members on police list from minority ethnic groupsThe proportion of suspects on the Metropolitan police’s gangs matrix from minority ethnic groups has increased to nearly nine in 10, according to the force’s own figures.The data revealed after a question by Sian Berry, the London assembly member for the Green party, showed that 89% of the 3,362 individuals on the Met’s gangs list as of May 2018 were from black or minority ethnic groups. In Octob