The answer is definitely not. At the same time as the figures on race and the criminal justice system were released, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary issued its third report on the way the 43 constabularies deal with race issues. The Metropolitan and West Midlands police, which reported those comparatively low race crime figures, did receive praise from the Inspectorate for the systems they have put in place to deal with the issue. This is also the view in the community. Certainly there is racist crime.
People receive verbal harassment.
My car is scratched. That sort of thing. We believe it represents the confidence the communities now have in themselves. They are demanding to be taken seriously. The same question marks lurk over some of the low scores.