of policing against and prosecutions of the black community in the UK criminal justice system. Half or more of the stop and searches carried out in the UK are for drugs, meaning from 2009 to 2012 someone was stopped and searched for drugs every 58 seconds. This was found to have a damaging impact on the free movement of citizens who have done nothing wrong, because only 7% of stop and searches for drugs result in an arrest. They argued that the low levels of detection do not justify the high levels of interference, especially at a time of austerity where policing resources should be used wisely and not on low level possession offences, which can have a serious detrimental impact on the futures of those convicted. Ultimately the report proposes the decriminalisation of drug possession offences as and effective policy solution to the wasted resources and racial profiling problems found. The report found that Black people were more likely to be stopped and searched for drugs than white people, despite being less likely to use them. In 2009/10 the search rate for drugs for was 7 per 1000 white people, 14 per 1000 Mixed Race people, 18 per 1000 Asian people and 45 per 1000 Black people, meaning that Black people were 6.3 times more likely to be stopped and searched for drugs than white people. Conversely they found that only 5.8% of Black people use drugs, compared to 10.5% of white people. The report found that Black people are treated more harshly for drug possession than white people. In London the Metropolitan Police charges black people at 5 times the rate of white people for cannabis possession and at 3 times the rate for cannabis warnings. In 2009/10 the Metropolitan Police charged 78% of Black people caught in possession of cocaine, compared to just 44% of white people caught. Government response and follow-on investigations The Lammy Review was published in September 2017 and the Conservative government published the first Race Disparity Audit (RDA) in October 2017. The RDA found that children in Black and Asian households were around twice as likely to be in persistent poverty, with 1 in 4 children in Asian households and 1 in 5 children in Black households in persistent poverty, compared to 1 in 10 children in White households. It stated that Black, Pakistani and Bangladeshi people were especially likely to live in