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New government plan pushes almost completely ineffective section 60 search power to the fore, while GMP chief denies institutional racism exists within…
Jul 31Share
Home secretary calls on police to ‘zap’ the bad guys – but not to highlight the danger to Black people of encouraging trigger happy officers
Jun 30Share
A year on from the murder of George Floyd by the police, how much has really changed?
May 31Share
Police chief wants videos police brutality that surface on social media censored, while Spycops hearing hears evidence of abuses of power from officers…
Apr 30Share
A particularly violent month for the good people of the UK who only desire proper justice
Mar 31Share
More tales of Met misconduct surface, while the cold streak for wrongful charges brought under the Coronavirus Act continues for yet another month
Feb 28Share
Some police officers actions seek total compliance from the public, even while others flaunt the rules
Jan 31Share
Home Office statistics show potentially lethal TASER rapidly cementing a place as a tactic for defusing situations, while headline figures show a dispr…
Dec 24, 2020Share
More revelations of racist and morally suspect police interactions rub up against more defences of stop and search practices and timid reforms to fix t…
Nov 30, 2020Share
New police powers and procedures data tell us what we already suspected, as does evidence of police practices caught on Body Worn Video cameras
Oct 31, 2020Share
Home secretary finally agrees with our call for the police to release body cam footage of stop and search incidents to the public... albeit not for the…
Sep 30, 2020Share
This article has been amended to remove a quote from a Huffington Post article referring to the incident between 4Front and the Metropolitan Police as …
Sep 1, 2020Share
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