Black parents and those of other ethnic minorities are more likely to support the police using stop-and-search powers to look for cannabis than white parents, according to new research.
More than 1,000 parents were questioned in a survey by Deltapoll for the think tank Civitas.
The survey suggested 80 percent of BAME families agreed with stop-and-search being used to eradicate the sale of cannabis on the streets, compared with 70 percent of white parents.
Black parents were also more likely to back government plans for schools to routinely test teenage schoolchildren for the drug.
The report comes in the wake of the row over Child Q, a 15-year-old black girl who was strip-searched by police at a school in London after a teacher suspected she was in possession of cannabis. No drugs were found on her. The school’s head teacher later resigned and four police officers are being investigated for gross misconduct over the incident….