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Our latest blog posts
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Vacancy: StopWatch Administrator
We are looking for a part time Administrator to join our team! 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 »
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StopWatch Youth networks with activists across Europe
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 »
Latest news
- 22 Apr 2014Vacancy: StopWatch Administrator
- 24 Mar 2014The Shared Ordeal of Stop and Search
- 20 Mar 2014An Uphill Struggle for Police Accountability
- 4 Mar 2014StopWatch Strategy Day 2014
- 17 Feb 2014StopWatch Youth networks with activists across Europe
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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The Shared Ordeal of Stop and Search
Kayela Damaze, 24 Mar 2014 -
StopWatch Strategy Day 2014
StopWatch, 4 Mar 2014 -
StopWatch Youth networks with activists across Europe
Monique Lane, 17 Feb 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