Of the 146 ongoing police assault investigations in the West Midlands where ethnicity is recorded, 71 complainants are white (49 per cent) and 69 black or Asian (47.5 per cent).
He said "cuffing" crimes could involve officers deciding they did not believe complainants, recording multiple incidents in the same area as a single crime or recording thefts as "lost property", burglaries as "theft from property" and attempted burglaries as "criminal damage".
'There may also be a greater unwillingness to accept racially offensive behaviour.' The authority will also begin to record the ethnic origin of complainants.
The police took the D.J. into custody but did not press charges, probably because he did not record the images and there were no complainants, one law enforcement official said.
Ethnicity has been recorded in 146 cases, of which 71 complainants are white and 69 black or Asian, a ratio of almost 50-50.
Speaking on Wednesday, Smith told the Guardian she was "very, very annoyed" by repeated media requests to go on the record about her complaints, and she said other complainants also suffered, with reporters turning up at their workplaces to ask for comment when they were unwilling to go public.
"And the Registry of Motor Vehicles records indicate that the complainant who accused Duncan of the crime does not even own the vehicle, as he claimed".
When they tried to get records of phone numbers that had called the complainants, they failed in 92.5% of cases.
In 10 cases the ethnicity was not recorded and of the remaining 23 cases white complainants account for 10 (43.5 per cent) and black and Asian 13 (56.5 per cent).
Although the Record had been legally free to name the complainant, it said, "the code sets out a more stringent test than the law in that, regardless of the legal position, publications may not name victims of sexual assault unless there is 'adequate justification' to do so.
