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Press releases
- “Riots were Revenge against the police” – StopWatch welcomes latest Reading the Riots findings
- StopWatch press release on reduction in stop and search by Metropolitan Police - 13 January 2012
- StopWatch press release regarding MPA’s stop and account recording decision - 29 September 2011
- StopWatch press release on disproportionality in Schedule 7 stops
Latest StopWatch media mentions
- Bad stop and search tactic alienating young people — The Voice, 15 February 2014
- Section 60: a most draconian stop-and-search law that plays to police prejudice — The Guardian, 6 February 2014
- Black drivers are more likely to be stopped by police — The Guardian, 2 February 2014
- The reality of stop and search — Arts London News, 27 January 2014
- Factcheck: Does the case for stop and search stack up — Channel 4 News, 11 January 2014
- Stop and Search: Can the Police Get It Right? — The Huffington Post, 9 July 2013
- StopWatch Member Jane Basham Speaks at Launch of Schedule 7 Campaign — PressTV London, 7 June 2013
- Police stop and search has had a toxic effect on Britain’s ethnic minorities — The Guardian, 6 June 2013
- Special needs worker challenges police over stop and search — The Voice, 21 March 2013
- The Olympic Games: Who Wins? — National Radio Project, 17 July 2012
- “Radical overhaul” of police stop and search measures needed — East London Lines, 28 January 2012
- Stop and search use and alternative police tactics — BBC News, 17 January 2012
- Stop and search ‘racial profiling’ by police on the increase, claims study — The Guardian, 14 January 2012
- Police stop and search slashed — London Evening Standard, 12 January 2012
- Abuse of stop and search powers is a crime, says Lawrence inquiry adviser — The Guardian, 7 January 2012
- Riots in England: Inquiry Falls Short on Police Ethnic Profiling — Open Society Foundations, 1 December 2011
- Police forces cease recording race of people they stop — The Guardian, 22 September 2011
- England Riots: Time for a Public Inquiry, with Policing on the Agenda — Open Society Foundations, 15 August 2011
- Asians 42 times more likely to face stop and search, chief warns ‘communities feel singled out’ — Daily Mail, 24 May 2011
- The impact of counter-terrorism measures on Muslim communities — Equality and Human Rights Commission, 1 February 2011
Latest stop and search coverage
- 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
- Muslim man stopped by the police was wrongly refused access to a solicitor — The Guardian, 20 February 2014
- Stop and search impact “shameful” — Belfast Telegraph, 18 February 2014
- Labour offers backing for reform of stop and search — The Guardian, 18 February 2014
- Theresa May turns to black deaths after stop and search row — The Spectator, 13 February 2014
- Clegg and May form unlikely alliance in the battle with Cameron over cracking down on stop & search — The Daily Mail, 12 February 2014
- Five police officers and a solicitor could face charges over the death of Habib Ullah — The Independent, 6 February 2014
- Court of appeal rejects challenge over legality of stop-and-search powers — The Guardian, 4 February 2014
- Stop and Search: An investigation into the Met’s new approach to stop and search — London Assembly, 3 February 2014
- Crime commissioner: Police used stop and search just 8 times in last year — The Birmingham Mail, 30 January 2014
- Theresa May in standoff with No 10 over stop and search — The Telegraph, 23 January 2014
- Andrew Mitchell calls for police to be stripped of stop and search powers — The Birmingham Post, 23 January 2014
- Scots police have twice stop and search rate of Met — The Scotsman , 14 January 2014
- Metropolitan Police releases ‘alarming’ strip-search figures — The Independent, 10 January 2014
- Mark Duggan case: stop and search could be curbed — The Guardian, 9 January 2014
- EHRC’s Experimental Analysis of Examinations and Detentions under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act — Equality and Human Rights Commission, 18 December 2013
- Join consultation on stop and search, says youth leader — North London Newspapers, 4 September 2013
- Exclusive: Doreen Lawrence pledges to condemn ‘racial profiling’ spot checks in the House of Lords — The Independent, 2 August 2013
- Duwayne Brooks: this stop and search consultation is a positive thing — The Guardian, 2 August 2013
- Stop and Search: A necessary police power or a form of discrimination — The Metro, 30 July 2013
- Theresa May extends stop and search consultation — The Voice, 30 July 2013
- Stop and search: It’s time for the police to abolish this ineffective and damaging procedure — The Independent, 21 July 2013
- London Assembly to review Met’s use of stop and search powers — Mayor Watch, 11 July 2013
- Police use of stop-and-search powers criticised by HMIC — BBC, 9 July 2013
- Police use of stop-and-search powers criticised by HMIC — BBC, 9 July 2013
- Stop and Search: Can the Police Get It Right? — The Huffington Post, 9 July 2013
- Met Police memo reveals belief that public support the use of Stop and search — Camden New Journal, 7 July 2013
- Stop and search needs to be scaled back, Theresa May to tell MPs — The Guardian, 2 July 2013
- Stop and search: Time to get it right, says Theresa May — BBC, 2 July 2013
- Govt stop and search assurances ‘same old story’ — The Voice, 16 June 2013
- Police stop and search has had a toxic effect on Britain’s ethnic minorities — The Guardian - Comment is Free, 6 June 2013
- Asians not singled out in stop and search laws, police chief tells East London Mosque — East London Advertiser, 2 May 2013
- Police stop-and-search still target ethnic minorities, claims leading Manchester criminologist — Mancunian Matters, 1 May 2013
- Research reveals why police stop-and-search young people — phys.org, 30 April 2013
- I Went Stop and Searching in Soho with the London Met — Vice, 29 April 2013
- Children of eight searched as police stops rise — The Blackpool Gazette, 18 April 2013
- Terrorism related arrests up 60% without use of new stop and search power — The Guardian, 13 December 2012
- West Yorkshire Police stop and search prompt call for review — Yorkshire Evening Post, 5 November 2012
- Ipswich: Figures show black people are more likely to be stopped by police — Ipswich Star, 3 October 2012
- Stop and search powers causing alarm at ESREC — Burton Mail, 2 October 2012
- Terror laws: customs officials could take passengers’ DNA — Telegraph, 13 September 2012
- ‘Stop and detain’ counter-terrorism powers may be scaled back — Guardian, 13 September 2012
- Black teenager ‘stopped 50 times’ plans to sue Met police for harassment — Guardian, 24 August 2012
- Police protest tactics ‘give officers excessive and disproportionate control’ — Guardian, 24 July 2012
- For Tottenham’s youth, nothing has changed — Independent, 23 July 2012
- Anti-terrorism laws can be scaled back without risk, says watchdog — Evening Standard, 27 June 2012
- Leicestershire officers investigated over their use of stop and search — This Is Leicestershire, 18 June 2012
- Race ‘issue’ in stop and searches, study into act finds — BBC News, 12 June 2012
- Leicestershire officers’ use of stop and search halves in year — This Is Leicestershire, 9 February 2012