SUS law – a cause of the 1981 riots
The stop and search SUS laws were based on the Vagrancy Act of 1824 and caused massive resentment among black youth in the 1980s
Vagrancy Act
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The Special Patrol Group and the 80s riots
The Special Patrol Group was a Metropolitan unit that became very unpopular in the 1970s and was blamed for the 1981 riots in Brixton