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Home sec threatens to turn back time by rolling section 60 restrictions back to the 1990s, but fails to appreciate things have changed

New crime data remind us that fraud is bigger than knife and drug-related crime ever was… not that you would know it from media coverage, argues Eugene K

In the second of a series of articles on the little known policing tactic, Shaquille Scott-Davis explores the impact of Project Servator on our way of life

Shaquille Scott-Davis looks into the operations of a police patrol you may have noticed around a lot in the last 5 years, but probably know very little about

Sydney recounts the beginnings of an exciting new project

Chair Montell Neufville steps down after 5 years, cites successes of the system

New Home Office dataset shows rise in overall stop and searches, but masks a complex story of moral panic towards young people, especially of colour

Why does our law-and-orders government want to equate nuisance with terrorism?

It is in the interest of police forces themselves to help form effective community scrutiny panels/monitoring groups in their areas, argues Bedfordshire Police Community Scrutiny Panel vice chair

Georgia-Mae Chung describes how Suffolk Stop and Search Community Reference Group scrutinize stop and searches conducted by Suffolk police officers and how the group navigated the difficulties caused by the pandemic

The new orders proposed in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill will be neither proportionate nor likely to be effective in combating violent crime

Falls in section 43 and Schedule 7 stops under the Terrorism Act 2000 caused by multiple lockdown measures imposed during pandemic outbreak

Reading into 35 years of data, it doesn't take a detective to work why stop and search powers are being used disproportionately

Is Sir Stephen House the biggest threat to Black Londoners' safety?

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

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*

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

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

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

Psychotherapist and director of London Counsellors, Sabrina Williams, talks about the trauma of recent events, and how constant viewing of violent images and videos can impact us

By Samar Khan, member of StopWatch's research and policy group

Given the level of service some of us get from them these days, I’d like my money back

The story of Dwayne Francis's distressing and unnecessary police stop, told in full

Dr Adam Elliott-Cooper dissects the racist assumptions and language of a recent article on community policing

Arbitrary enforcement behaviour during the lockdown risks eroding our faith in the force