August 2024: Is this what you call progress? A nightmare on Met street

Between an embarrassing inspection by HMICFRS and front-and-centre coverage in the children’s commissioner’s report on child strip searches, the Met is not having a good month

Dear StopWatchers,

This month has seen our new government use weeks of racist riots across the nation as an excuse to pledge more resources to police forces and encourage them to use existing powers more, from ramping up facial recognition technologies to granting suspicionless stop and searches to any and every force who wants them. This freedom to run …