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I also want to talk about the group Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association. Together with Liberty, it says that the CPS agreed to collect and monitor data on the disproportionate prosecutions of ethnic-minority, disabled and working-class people under joint enterprise. The results of its pilot data collection were stark, showing 16 times more Black people being prosecuted under joint enterprise than their white counterparts. The results from the first full year of the CPS data collection scheme were published in September of last year and confirm stark disparities in charging and prosecution data. The proportion of Black defendants made up 25% of its caseload last year, compared with 4% of the population. The percentage of joint-enterprise defendants who are mixed race is 7.8%, compared with 2.9% of the population.