{"id":310584,"date":"2025-06-17T05:55:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T05:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=310584"},"modified":"2025-06-21T05:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T05:33:07","slug":"police-avoided-grooming-gang-investigations-over-racism-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=310584","title":{"rendered":"Police \u2018avoided grooming gang investigations over racism fears\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Daily Telegraph \u2013 June 16, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Police avoided pursuing grooming gangs for fear of being viewed as racist, a major report has found.<\/p>\n

Baroness Casey, a former civil servant, found that in too many cases, police forces and local authorities avoided prosecuting perpetrators<\/a> because they were worried about looking bigoted and inflaming community tensions.<\/p>\n

She concluded that the Establishment has been in \u201cdenial\u201d over the ethnicity of grooming gangs.<\/p>\n

And she suggested there had been a widespread cover-up, with public bodies using flawed data to enable them to dismiss claims about Asian grooming gangs as \u201csensationalised, biased or untrue\u201d.<\/p>\n

Baroness Casey found that information on the ethnicity of abusers was not recorded in two thirds of cases.<\/p>\n

Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, told MPs that the Government would accept all the recommendations, including setting up a national inquiry<\/a> into grooming gangs.<\/p>\n

She said that rape laws should be tightened up and many girls convicted of child prostitution would be cleared.<\/p>\n

Ms Cooper added: \u201cThis will mark the biggest programme of work ever pursued to root out the grooming gangs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose vile perpetrators who have grown used to the authorities looking the other way must have no place to hide.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Vile crimes\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Convicted grooming gangs nationwide. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

She said 800 cold cases would be looked into and that number could rise to 1,000, adding: \u201cPerpetrators of these vile crimes should be behind bars and paying the price of what they have done.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Home Secretary said the report found a \u201cdeep-rooted failure to treat children as children\u201d, adding: \u201cA continued failure to protect teenage girls from rape, from exploitation and serious violence, and from the scars that last a lifetime.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Baroness Casey] finds\u2026 too much reliance on flawed data, too much denial, too little justice, too many criminals getting off, too many victims being let down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms Cooper said the report found that children as young as 10 were singled out for grooming.<\/p>\n

\u201cPerpetrators [were] walking free because no one joined up the dots or because the law protected them instead of the victims that they had exploited,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlindness, ignorance, prejudice, defensiveness and even good but misdirected intentions all played a part in this collective failure.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said there had been a \u201ccontinued failure to collect robust national data despite concerns being raised going back very many years\u201d.<\/p>\n

The report includes local data from three forces which show \u201cclear evidence of over-representation among suspects of Asian and Pakistani heritage men\u201d and Baroness Casey \u201crefers to examples of organisations avoiding the topic altogether for fear of appearing racist or raising community tension\u201d.<\/p>\n

Baroness Casey\u2019s report found: \u201cFlawed data is used repeatedly to dismiss claims about \u2018Asian grooming gangs\u2019 as sensationalised, biased or untrue. This does a disservice to victims and indeed all law-abiding people in Asian communities.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead of examination, we have seen obfuscation. In a vacuum, incomplete and unreliable data is used to suit the ends of those presenting it. The system claims there is an overwhelming problem with white perpetrators when that can\u2019t be proved.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report added: \u201cThis does no one any favours at all, and least of all those in the Asian, Pakistani or Muslim communities who needlessly suffer as those with malicious intent use this obfuscation to sow and spread hatred.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo prevent it we have to understand it. We have failed in our duty to do that to date.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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