A good book on the Stephen Lawrence case

If you get a chance, try to pick up the latest Civitas book: Mind Forg’d Manacles. By Jon Gower Davies, it’s an analysis of the effect of the Macpherson report into the death of the black teenager Stephen Lawrence and the aftermath. Davies is rightly tough on Macpherson and swats away the charge of “institutional racism” levelled against the police. The consequence has been a police force shackled by political correctness, sent hither and thither in the pursuit of nonsensical hate crimes and “paralysed the investigations of some crimes that involve ethnic minority suspects.” There is also an intelligent discussion of the subsequent “double jeopardy” prosecution of two of the white men originally charged with killing Stephen Lawrence. It’s the best contribution to the public debate I’ve read for a long time. Unfortunately, it’s also nine quid.