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October 2025: Haunted by the ghosts of racists past

Police ramp up racism for Black History Month, also get the green light to change the record on leniency granted for killing civilians

Oct 31

September 2025

September 2025: Riots, race, and contradictions

Met chief: Facial recognition isn't for identifying violent racists, silly! It's just for fun things, like carnivals

Sep 30

August 2025

July 2025

July 2025: What does crime smell like?

Police chiefs claim the smell of cannabis makes THEM feel unsafe... even more so than those who have been abused by their officers

Jul 31

June 2025

June 2025: Child-centred police abuse

Is the outcome of the misconduct hearing over Child Q a watershed moment in policing, or yet another false dawn?

Jun 29

May 2025

May 2025: Dismissing gross misconduct

New rules see gross misconduct treated as grounds for straight dismissal, 'unless there are exceptional circumstances'. What does that mean?

May 31

April 2025

March 2025

March 2025: Doing violence to data

Police chiefs and politicians fall for new research that suits their claims about stop and search's effectiveness, while a hospital's knife bin amnesty…

Mar 31

February 2025

February 2025: Eradicating knives vs changing lives

The national debate on knife crime ignites government policy, while the Met publishes its own charter of (in)action

Feb 28

January 2025

January 2025: Too much of not enough

Police complaints over pay undermined by inadequate performances of forces

Jan 31

December 2024

December 2024: All we want for Xmas is for the police to stop harassing children

Doesn't matter if the police have been good or not this year, 'cos they'll get a present in the form of a 3% real terms increase in funding

Dec 23, 2024 • 

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November 2024

November 2024: Postcode policing and the jackpot for justice

The Home Office's response to police failings across the country

Nov 30, 2024 • 

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