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Making up the numbers
Mainstream discourse on police numbers neglects to ask if the officers recruited are any good?
opinion
04.08.2023
What does the Public Order Act mean for stop and search?
StopWatch volunteer Ella Ticktin-Smith considers the new stop and search powers conferred by the Public Order Act
opinion
10.07.2023
Honest and reasonable: holding police accountable
StopWatch volunteer Corey Campbell reflects on the Supreme Court's ruling in the 'officer W80 case'
opinion
06.07.2023
Pockets of good practice
Independent scrutiny panel for Beds, Herts, and Cambs highlights successes
opinion
19.06.2023
Tips on how to cover police news properly
Police force lies about its involvement in the deaths of two teenage boys, gets found out. All in a day’s work. But why do the media have to be complicit?
opinion
26.05.2023
Facial recognition policing: It’s not just about improving algorithmic inaccuracies
With a focus on the use of private technology companies and operational procedures, PhD researcher Tyler Dadge highlights several key questions that are yet to be answered concerning the police's use of facial recognition, and argues that algorithmic accuracy is just one issue amongst many when it comes to police use of this tech
opinion
03.05.2023
The Met: an institutional problem
The backlash to the Casey Review's central finding indicates a denial of the realities and experiences of the people impacted by police discrimination going back decades
opinion
27.04.2023
The gangs matrix, where are we now?
In autumn 2022, following a landmark court case, the Met agreed to a 'wholesale change' of their database. Shaquille Scott-Davis wonders what this means and whether this is happening at all
opinion
04.04.2023
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