EU: Racist police approach remains underreported

European Union Foundation Rights Agency, The FRA, said racist police approach “is widely underreported to the EU”.

In a report published Wednesday, the Vienna-based agency said most EU countries “do not have official data sources for racist incidents and discrimination involving police”.

According to the report, only a few countries have registered police racism incidents separately.

Of them, only Germany, the Czech Republic, and the Netherlands publish the data.

The report is based on previous research by the FRA, which shows that police most frequently prohibit young people, ethnic minorities, Muslims or people who are not identified as heterosexuals.

The number of registered incidents of police racism is very low”, the report said.

This makes the matter” impossible, according to him.

The FRA also said that, in recent years in the EU, some people from ethnic minorities have been shot to death “following interactions with police”.

The report noted that many European countries have police overseers, but that many are not independent.

He urged countries to increase diversity in police forces.

In 2022, The FRA conducted a survey among people of African origin, in 13 EU countries, regarding the police ban.

The poll found that the largest number of people of banned African origin was in Austria, then in Germany and Ireland. /Radio Free Europe