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  The Shared Ordeal of Stop and Search

  Kayela Damaze, 24 Mar 2014

  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

  Joanna Fleck, 20 Mar 2014

  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

  StopWatch, 4 Mar 2014

  Here's StopWatch intern Seth Maynard's account of our annual Strategy Day which took place in January. Read more »

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  StopWatch Youth networks with activists across Europe

  Monique Lane, 17 Feb 2014

  I recently participated in a pan-European anti-racist conference “Wipe Out Hate! UNITED in Solidarity” in Prague, sharing StopWatch’s work with other youth activists. Here is my account of five days of learning, discussion and networking. Read more »

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  Vehicle stops and strip searches - the methodology of our recent findings

  StopWatch, 17 Feb 2014

  Two weeks ago the Guardian reported our findings of a) increasing and discriminatory vehicle stops, and b) the facts (and lack thereof) concerning strip searches in the context of stop-and-searches. To accompany this report, and lay the groundwork for relevant, upcoming StopWatch briefings, we offer this discussion of some of the methodology and sources behind these findings. Read more »

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