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• Plans to expand stop and search to protests are looking for trouble

  Eugene K, 30 Nov 2020

  Police say ‘we want more powers’, home sec asks ‘how many’? Read more »

• StopWatch open letter to the Secretary of State for the Home Department on SVROs

  stopwatchuk18, 6 Nov 2020

  We've written to Home Secretary Priti Patel over the proposed introduction of Serious Violence Reduction Orders – we implore all of those moved by these concerns to respond to the government’s consultation on these proposals before the deadline of 8 November* Read more »

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  Have your say: Home Office consults on Serious Violence Reduction Orders

  StopWatch, 5 Nov 2020

  Consultation on plans to allow police to stop and search those previously convicted of knife crime offences without suspicion Read more »

• Stop and searches increase 50% – racial disparity remains the same

  stopwatchuk18, 27 Oct 2020

  New data finds Black people stopped and searched 9 times more than White people in England and Wales Read more »

• All lives matter but only blue lives count

  Eugene K, 2 Oct 2020

  Where is the monument to our fallen at the hands of police brutality? Read more »

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