ECRI warns of persistent racial profiling in European law enforcement

Law enforcement officials across Europe continue to use racial profiling, the Council of Europe’s human rights monitoring body (ECRI) has warned.

In a report published on Wednesday, the ECRI said the practice — which sees officials act on ethnic background, skin colour, religion or citizenship rather than objective evidence — persists both in stop-and-search policing and at border controls.

“We’ve noticed that no member state of…