Edited sentence: "Black and Asian people experience a higher likelihood of being stopped and searched.A 2005 United States Department of Justice report on violent crimes stated that of the "perceived race" of the offenders in single-offender violent crimes, 43.3% were White, 21.0% were Black, and 9.6% were "Other", with the remaining 26.0% of offenders of unknown race.A report by Britain's Home Office for the years 2003, 2004, and 2005 stated that of the "ethnic appearance" of persons arrested for "notable offenses", 84.3% were White, 8.8% were Black, 4.9% were Asian, and 1.4% were Other, with the remaining percentage classified as "Unknown".Abuses at such schools were widespread and have been the subject of many court cases and reconciliation attempts by the churches that ran the schools and the various governments of Canada.Additionally, the report stated that when cases of crime went to court, those of either Black or White ethnic appearance were convicted 51% of the time, and those of Asian appearance were convicted 24% of the time.Furthermore, Black people are also overrepresented in the prison population reflecting, at least in part, the longest average sentence imposed upon them.It stated that:.Moreover, Black defendants are more prominent in the Crown Court caseload, although this is partly due to a tendency to elect for jury trial more often than other ethnic groups, including White.Natives in Canada were not allowed to attend public schools until 1967.The British Crime Survey reveals that in 2004, 87,000 people from black or minority ethnic communities said they had been a victim of a racially motivated crime.The existence of institutional racism in British police forces was criticized by the Macpherson report , published in February 1999 after the murder of Stephen Lawrence, a 18 years-old black British teenager.These schools were similar to ones in the United States and Australia.They had suffered 49,000 violent attacks, with 4,000 being wounded.They were often forcibly removed from their homes and made to attend residential schools, which generally forbade them to speak their own languages and practice their own religions.This has largely been attributed to historical factors