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Published in: 50.50: NewsMPs call for review into policing of Black children
Shocking testimony shared in Parliament as Metropolitan Police placed in special measures
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Published in: Home: NewsStarmer’s car industry funding revealed as he backs action on oil protests
The Labour leader has called for injunctions against green protesters. Now it has emerged two of his biggest donors...
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Published in: Home: NewsPolice drug-testing pilot disproportionately targets Black people
Exclusive: South Yorkshire Police was given £32,000 for the scheme, but is now facing questions over racism
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Published in: Home: Opinion‘I was called a national security threat because I organised a protest’
Police banned Sam Knights from the Labour Party conference because of his climate campaign work. He argues we must...
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Published in: Home: NewsHackney schoolgirl strip-searched by police breaks silence
‘Child Q’ was wrongly accused of having drugs and subjected to a humiliating search while on her period. Her family...
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Published in: Home: NewsExclusive: More London children speak out about horrific police strip searches
Young people and youth workers will picket a Hackney police station over the ‘state-sanctioned sexual assault’ of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsUK’s Policing Bill would silence us, says Ukrainian protester
Warning that Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill will criminalise protest: “Just how different from Russia is...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsPolicing bill: MPs have one last chance to protect the right to protest
Protesters are urging MPs to ‘use their privilege for power’ next week when the notorious bill returns to the...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: FeatureBrazil’s policing is a war of men. Civilians are caught in the crossfire
Rio de Janeiro’s security policy, led by a masculine logic of war, subjects people to authoritarian actions with no...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionI covered Stephen Port’s murders. I know Cressida Dick’s departure isn’t enough
As a gay journalist, I connected the dots on the killings before the Met Police did – and was intimidated by police...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsExclusive: Hundreds of UK police kept jobs after sickening social media abuses
Sharing porn and a ‘sexualised’ conversation with a teenager among reasons why cops have been disciplined or...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: FeatureUK Traveller communities fear ‘cultural annihilation’ over upcoming trespass laws
Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people face imprisonment or hefty fines under new England and Wales Police Bill that...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: ExplainerPolicing Bill and Elections Bill: What’s next in fight to save UK democracy?
Lords’ defeat of last-minute additions to England and Wales’s Policing Bill hailed as a victory by campaigners, but...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionAs a former officer, I'm horrified by England and Wales’s Police Bill
The bill could spell the end of policing by consent – and force police leaders to decide whether to use draconian...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionEngland and Wales’s Police Bill threatens anyone with a cause they believe in
It now proposes new crimes that could criminalise almost any protester and give police alarmingly wide powers of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionSarah Everard’s murderer has been sentenced. Now, Cressida Dick must go
Everard’s murder by a police officer exposes the reality of a rotten institution with a culture of misogyny. Before...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKChildren’s rights being sidelined while nation focuses on Brexit
Britain’s poorest children are increasingly subject to poor housing and dangerous policing tactics including Tasers...
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Published in: openSecurityThe five pillars of Islamophobia
Vague categories like ‘extremist’ and ‘radicalisation’ are trawling Muslims in a very large ‘counter-terrorism’ net.
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Published in: openSecurityCommunity policing? Achieving more realistic results
It has become fashionable for first-world donors to embrace ‘community policing’ for developing-world security...
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Published in: openSecurityAfter Garissa, Kenya needs to break the cycle
The massacre at a university in Kenya should lead the government to a recognition that repressive and discriminatory...