UK, racism problems in police services

UNITED KINGDOM

The number of recruits from ethnic minorities to British police forces is severely going down, despite concerted efforts to improve relations between police and minority communities (especially black ones).
This statement is held while concerns over racism in the service are renewed. It semed that serving officers were part of the BNP, whereas they are banned from joining it. It seems to be also the case of soldiers. BNP's leader said that if these people were sacked it could be held in justice because the Equality Act condemned discrimination based on political grounds.
The BNP becomes more and more important. Recently, a dozen members were arrested by the police. THey were accused of distribuying racist material. Scotland Yard also examinated a leaflet from BNP accusing young Muslim men of racist campaigns.
The government is recalling people that there is a threat of extremists. Especially from white working class communities hit by the credit crunch. These people feel ignored by the mainstream parties, and so turn themselves to the BNP.



BNP : The British National Party is a far-right racist political party in the UK.



This discrimination seems to be something growing up nowadays. It could be linked with an apparent growing up of antisemitism (more neo nazis on the internet fro example). After what we heard in the knews about the repercussion of Obama's election on black communities, this is a bit surprising.
What is frightening is the important grow of the BNP. The case explained in this article makes me think of the situation before Hitler's assenssion to power (in less important level). But it might be a bit exagerated, I hope so. But if it is really true it should taken into account. (We can see that the government is taking it into account. )
Tis made me think that we heard a lot about the economic consequences of the financial crisis (of course it's the main point), but I didn't hear very much about the social and ideological consequences from the crisis. I didn't think that it was so hard that people could turn themselves to extremist parties.