Met uses software that can be deployed to see if ethnic groups ‘specialise’ in areas of crime
Exclusive: Origins software produced by Trevor Phillips’s firm allows users to profile suspects, says company
The Metropolitan police have been using software that can be deployed to help identify whether different ethnic groups “specialise” in particular types of crime, the Guardian can reveal.
The Origins programme, produced by Webber Phillips, a consultancy run by Prof Richard Webber and the former Equality and Human Rights Commission chair Trevor Phillips has been described by the former as conferring the ability “to profile perpetrators and victims” of crimes.
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