Therefore it is an obvious social fact that this type of legislation works, because exactly those who are profiled as defendants and those subsequently found guilty, reflect the same characteristics as the vast majority caught under so-called preventive legislation.
Color and Citizenship, a monumental 800-page report first produced in 1969 by Jim Rose and others, has formed the basic building blocks for British social policy in this area since, made precisely these types of deductions when looking at raw ‘government’ data.
It assumed the data was reflective of the true position, and in some way value-neutral. Those in radical social policy saw the flaws in the immediately. The basis of these assumptions lay in the notion that too many’ black migrants could result in racial conflict. Additionally, however, the ‘numbers game’ was tied to the idea that the cultural differences between the immigrants and the host population were a potential source of conflict.