Here's something to think about next time your government asks you to give up your constitutional-entrenched freedoms...
More than 100,000 people were stopped and searched by police under counter-terrorism powers last year but none of them were arrested for terrorism-related offences, according to Home Office figures published today.
"This astonishing fact of no terrorism-related arrests, let alone prosecutions or convictions, in over 100,000 stop and searches, demonstrates what a massively counter-productive policy this is," said Davis.
"A policy which fuels resentment and antagonism amongst minority communities without achieving a single terrorist conviction serves only to help our enemies and increase the terrorism threat."
Read more here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/oct/28/terrorism-police-stop-search-arrests
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