News & comment
Our latest blog posts
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Y-Stop launches
Check out the new Y-Stop Search Cards, from a new project that helps young people to handle stop and search. Read more »
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StopWatch responds to the Home Secretary’s proposals on stop and search reform
Here's our response to the Home Secretary's proposals, issued today. Read more »
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The Shared Ordeal of Stop and Search
When StopWatch Youth member Kayela attended a conference on young people and diversity in the outskirts of Paris, the stories she heard about racial profiling from the students who live there sounded familiar. Read more »
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An Uphill Struggle for Police Accountability
Guest blogger Joanna Fleck discusses the challenges of obtaining a stop and search receipt after the event and questions why these requests are having to be made under the Data Protection Act. Read more »
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StopWatch Strategy Day 2014
Here's StopWatch intern Seth Maynard's account of our annual Strategy Day which took place in January. Read more »
Latest news
- 25 Jun 2014Y-Stop launches
- 30 Apr 2014StopWatch responds to the Home Secretary’s proposals on stop and search reform
- 24 Mar 2014The Shared Ordeal of Stop and Search
- 20 Mar 2014An Uphill Struggle for Police Accountability
- 4 Mar 2014StopWatch Strategy Day 2014
Latest from our streams of work
Stop & Search Your PCC
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Police and Crime Commissioners Out of Touch on Stop and Search
StopWatch, 18 Sep 2013 -
Notes on the use of Stop and Account in the West Midlands
Sondhya Gupta, 10 Sep 2013 -
Stop and Search your PCC - the campaign in the West Midlands
Kam Gill, 28 Nov 2012
Research & policy
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An Uphill Struggle for Police Accountability
Joanna Fleck, 20 Mar 2014 -
StopWatch Strategy Day 2014
StopWatch, 4 Mar 2014 -
What does the Duggan inquest tell us about relations between the police and the BME community?
StopWatch, 29 Jan 2014
Legal
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An Uphill Struggle for Police Accountability
Joanna Fleck, 20 Mar 2014 -
StopWatch Strategy Day 2014
StopWatch, 4 Mar 2014 -
Section 60: a most draconian stop-and-search law that plays to police prejudice
StopWatch, 6 Feb 2014
Youth
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Y-Stop launches
Natasha Dhumma, 25 Jun 2014 -
The Shared Ordeal of Stop and Search
Kayela Damaze, 24 Mar 2014 -
StopWatch Strategy Day 2014
StopWatch, 4 Mar 2014
Stop & search in the media
- Lib Dem leader Rennie wants end to stop and search — The Scotsman, 1 April 2014
- Disproportionate amount of black and Asians being stopped by Northamptonshire Police, report claims — Northampton Chronicle and Echo, 31 March 2014
- No one from Somali community attends police bid to explain stop and search — The Bristol Post, 27 March 2014
- Met Police chief considered ending stop and search — BBC News, 27 March 2014
- ‘Regressive attitudes’ hold up stop and search changes — BBC News, 6 March 2014