About StopWatch
Stop and search tactics continue to create a wedge between communities and the police. Disproportionality in stop and search leads to mistrust of the police among certain sections of society.
The StopWatch action group will seek to work with communities, ministers, policy makers and senior police officers to ensure that the reforms to the police service are fair and inclusive, and lead to better policing for all.
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Lastest News and Events
On December 14 2011 the Home Secretary Theresa May announced that the Association of Chief Police Officers would be leading an inquiry into stop and search practice. Since that time details on the terms of reference or even the timeline of the inquiry have not been forthcoming. StopWatch recently wrote to the Home Secretary seeking clarity on these issues. We feel that it is vital that any inquiry be full and robust in order to avoid another wasted opportunity to make serious improvements to the policing of marginal communities.
StopWatch legal group members Katherine Craig and Sarah McSherry write in the Guardian (Tuesday 17 January 2012) about the need for Stop and Search reform to go beyond arrest rates.
StopWatch welcome the decision by the new commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe to reduce the use of Stop and Search in the Capital and reform the use of section 60.
Latest Articles and Research
StopWatch has produced a press release on the findings of the Guardian's project Reading the Riots. Read it here: “Riots were Revenge against the police” – StopWatch welcomes latest Reading the Riots findings
This is the paper presentation written by Michael Shiner, London School of Economics and member of StopWatch, in occasion of the Roundtable on Ethnic/Racial Profiling in the UK and USA that was held in August 2011 at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. You can read the full text of the paper here: Organisational Strategies for Change and Regulation in regard to Stop and Search in the UK
This is a paper written by Emeritus Professor at University of Warwick and member of StopWatch Lee Bridges for a presentation to the Roundtable on police-initiated stops in the UK and USA that was held in August 2011 at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. You can read the full text of the paper here: Police-initiated Stop Practices in the United Kingdom - Where are we now?
StopWatch launched by Rev. Jesse Jackson from Runnymede Trust on Vimeo.
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