sus law

It takes its name from the Sus law in operation at the time.

Sus law could be reinstated or more tightly enforced to prevent sabotage.

Later commentators suggested that poverty and the sus laws were more important causes of the riots than race.

There were complaints by black youths of police harassment, the sus laws merely being used as an excuse for this.

That restriction was introduced because of the concern expressed about the old Vagrancy Act and the sus laws.

I wonder if the police resources being applied to Sus Laws might yield better protection for the public if applied to intelligence lead action?

Increasing use by the police of Sus laws to stop and search youths, predominantly those from the Afro-Caribbean community, raised tension.

The sus law was repealed on 27 August 1981, when the Criminal Attempts Act 1981 received Royal Assent.

The 'sus laws' were a type of law which allowed police to arrest members of the public when it was believed that they were acting suspiciously and not necessarily committing a crime.

This came to be known-as the "Sus law", and was widely regarded in some areas as being used as a justification by the police for the harassment of the young and racial minorities.

Officers were dispatched into Brixton, and within five days around 1,000 people were stopped and searched, and 82 arrested, through the heavy use of the 'sus law' (stop and search powers).

McNee was against the repeal of the sus law, believing that no evidence had been provided that arrests under that law did harm to the relationship between the police and black people.

In 1979, Linton Kwesi Johnson wrote and recorded a dub poem about the Sus Law entitled "Sonny's Lettah (An Anti-Sus Poem)".

Inner city decay, unemployment and the heavy-handed policing of ethnic minorities (notably the application of the notorious sus law) sparked major riots in London, Liverpool, Bristol and a spate of disturbances elsewhere.

Such a mental health 'sus law,' invoked on the basis of unreliable predictions of dangerousness, will bring psychiatric practice closer to policing and will undermine the attempts to achieve cure or care, both in hospitals and community settings.

Public reaction to Peach's death, and other underlying racial tensions including excessive police use of the infamous Sus law, ultimately led to the 1981 Brixton riot and a public inquiry by Lord Scarman.

The riots were quickly blamed on race, but both white and black youths fought against the police and the problems are thought to have been linked instead to poverty and perceived social injustices, predominantly the Sus law prevalent at the time.

Subsequent British legislation that makes provision for the police to act on the basis of suspicion alone has been denounced as "another sus law" by opponents of proposals to grant increased "stop and question" powers to police officers in England and Wales.

Before the 1981 riot was the centre of Operation Swamp 81 aimed at reducing street crime mainly through the heavy use of the so-called sus law, which allowed police to stop and search individuals on the basis of a mere 'suspicion' of wrongdoing.

The sus law had attracted considerable controversy prior to the early 1980s race riots (in St Pauls, Bristol, in 1980, and in Brixton, London, Toxteth, Liverpool, Handsworth, Birmingham and Chapeltown, Leeds in 1981).

The Conservative Party government elected in 1979 had instituted new powers for the Police under the Vagrancy Act of 1824 to stop and search people based on only a 'reasonable suspicion' that an offence had been committed - hence their common name of "Sus laws".

The SBG (an allusion to the Special Patrol Group), a section of the London police driven on by the fanatical Inspector Sussworth (an allusion to the sus laws) and dedicated to finding Borribles and clipping their ears is determined to wipe them out.

In England and Wales, the sus law (from "suspected person", see below) was the informal name for a stop and search law that permitted a police officer to stop, search and potentially arrest people on suspicion of them being in breach of section 4 of the Vagrancy Act 1824.