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Council tax rises, but do police standards?
Police forces across the country are about to receive yet another income boost to their coffers, but with the mushrooming of scandals and institutional rot, many taxpayers must be wondering 'what for'?
opinion
14.03.2023
Plan for police stops to reduce crime: will it work?
Ella Thomson compares the findings of a research paper that suggests police searches may produce more harm than good with the new Met chief's latest data-driven intentions for fighting crime
opinion
15.02.2023
More Data, More Racism, No Respect
The new Met chief's big data obsession risks overlooking long-standing concerns from Londoners about police culture and conduct
opinion
14.01.2023
Does economic inequality fuel stop and search by the police? Evidence from London suggests the answer is ‘Yes’
Police officers more frequently stop and search members of the public in neighbourhoods where well-off and economically precarious people co-exist. Joel H. Suss and Thiago R. Oliveira show that this pattern holds up even when accounting for other important factors, such as previous local crime rates and a neighbourhood’s ethnic makeup. Although the evidence is that stop and search activity does little to reduce crime, the police persist with the practice in order to maintain social order
opinion
21.10.2022
Swift, Certain, Tough: What could the latest drugs proposal mean for stop and search?
In this article, StopWatch volunteer Ella discusses Priti Patel's new drugs policy white paper and its implications for stop and search practices.
opinion
16.08.2022
Why the time has come to withdraw consent to policing
As the Met appoints a new commissioner, former police officer Chantelle Lunt argues that unless all police forces across England and Wales adopt a new model of policing, the people should #withdrawconsent
opinion
08.07.2022
When cops analyse drill, but get it wrong still
Describing drill as ‘gang-related music’ that ostensibly encourages serious violence is deeply problematic, argues Dr Lambros Fatsis
opinion
03.06.2022
My experience as a co-researcher for StopWatch’s girls research project
Sydney provides a moving testament of how the girls' research project process has affected her perceptions of policing
projects
25.05.2022
Words are like weapons
Home sec threatens to turn back time by rolling section 60 restrictions back to the 1990s, but fails to appreciate things have changed
opinion
16.05.2022
Stop and search in the age of fraud
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
opinion
09.05.2022
What are the policy and social implications of Project Servator?
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
opinion
06.05.2022
What is Project Servator?
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
opinion
01.04.2022
Girls and young women's research project: Week 1
Sydney recounts the beginnings of an exciting new project
projects
11.03.2022
Bedfordshire scrutiny panel changes hands
Chair Montell Neufville steps down after 5 years, cites successes of the system
opinion
18.02.2022
Weapons of mass disruption
Why does our law-and-orders government want to equate nuisance with terrorism?
opinion
08.10.2021
The importance of stop and search and Use of Force scrutiny panels
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
opinion
16.09.2021
Get you scrutiny that can do both: The Suffolk Stop and Search Community Reference Group as a model
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
opinion
05.07.2021
A sus law by any other name stinks as much
Reading into 35 years of data, it doesn't take a detective to work why stop and search powers are being used disproportionately
opinion
19.03.2021
This House ain't safe
Is Sir Stephen House the biggest threat to Black Londoners' safety?
opinion
05.02.2021
Plans to expand stop and search to protests are looking for trouble
Police say ‘we want more powers’, home sec asks ‘how many’?
opinion
30.11.2020