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• The sus law was repealed on 27 August 1981, when the Criminal Attempts Act 1981 received Royal Assent.
• Increasing use by the police of Sus laws to stop and search youths, predominantly those from the Afro-Caribbean community, raised tension.
• The sus law was repealed on 27 August 1981, on the advice of the 1979 Royal Commission on Criminal Procedure, when the Criminal Attempts Act 1981 received Royal Assent.
• The Vagrancy Act of 1824 to stop and search people based on only a'reasonable suspicion'that an offence had been committed & mdash; hence their common name of " sus laws ".
• This came to be known-as the " Sus law ", and was widely regarded in some areas as being used as a justification by the police for the harassment of the young and racial minorities.
• The Metropolitan Police began " Operation Swamp 81 " at the beginning of April, aimed at reducing street crime, largely through the repeated use of the so-called sus law, which allowed police officers to stop and search any individual on the grounds of mere'suspicion'of possible wrongdoing.
• During the 1970s, police forces across England began to increasingly use the Sus law, provoking a sense that young black men were being discriminated against by the police The next newsworthy outbreak of street fighting occurred in 1976 at the Notting Hill Carnival when several hundred police officers and youths became involved in televised fights and scuffles, with stones thrown at police, baton charges and a number of minor injuries and arrests.
• Officers from other Metropolitan police districts and the Special Patrol Group were dispatched into Brixton, and within five days, 943 people were stopped and searched, and 82 arrested, through the heavy use of what was colloquially known as the " Sus law . " This referred to powers under the Vagrancy Act 1824, which allowed police to search and arrest members of the public when it was believed that they were acting suspiciously, and not necessarily committing a crime.