Profiling is alive you're white
I travelled to Shrewsbury from Ludlow the night Shrewsbury Town played Walsall in the league and was surprised to see a metal detector at the bottom of one side of the stairs, manned by six policemen.
I was asked to queue and pass through the airport-style metal detector and empty out my pockets.
I noticed that not all passengers were being asked to pass this side and questioned why I had been selected.
I was sober, I am teetotal and was travelling alone, so why was I selected? I was told by the police that I fitted the profile of people they were looking to search. I am white and in my early 30s.
On the face of it I would have no issue with this profiling, providing the police were equally selective about profiling other ethnic groups.
Anyone who passed through our airports this summer would tell you that was not the case. I flew from Birmingham on several occasions and the searches were indiscriminate.
On one occasion I saw an elderly couple in wheelchairs being made to remove their shoes.
Our police are now so politically correct and scared of being branded racist that they are actually discriminating against the indigenous population.
Profiling is alive and well if you happen to be white and British.
James Whittall, Ludlow
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