ABSTRACT
This chapter moves away from our representative sample of Londoners. We examine the experience of police stops – as well as the correlations between how these encounters were experienced and subsequent trust in the police – among a particular collection of individuals. Focusing on young men from ethnic minority groups who live in diverse and mainly inner-London areas, we draw on a survey conducted in four London boroughs in the summer of 2010. The nature of the sampling precludes this survey from being seen as representative of the broader population. But it does provide a rich set of data concerning the knowledge, experiences and opinions of the police among a group (or set of groups) often believed to have very different views of the police than those from less disadvantaged or excluded groups.
