We've been evaluating Serious Violence Fund for five years. Newest evaluation, covering 2019-2024 should be out in a few months.

#criminology take note. Look forward to seeing a decent evaluation of this - looks very promising on the face of it. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

"A medic at one Tehran hospital said there were "direct shots to the heads of the young people, to their hearts as well", while a doctor said an eye hospital in the capital had gone into crisis mode" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

According to my sources, the FBI was initially open to a concurrent investigation with the MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (the state agency that would do this investigation). Trumpy U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen heard about this and intervened, barring the FBI from cooperating with local police.

It’s easy to glibly react to such headlines, but the article itself is terrible, ignoring a host of expert opinion and using a single source comparing Trumpism to Nazism (not fascism) to make its ultimate argument.

““The police excluded (having initially included) any assessment of the significant risk to the Jewish community, and claimed to have consulted the local community in advance of the decision, which they had not,” the BoD statement added.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

“Laura O’Brien, a partner at the law firm of Hodge Jones & Allen, told Human Rights Watch that the new laws had created confusion among officers and, in the context of placards at pro-Palestinian protests, the approach seemed to be “arrest first and decide later” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

#BBCNews - Two rapists among Met officers not properly vetted www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The MPS has published a review of historic vetting practices, which identifies that standards were cut in order to achieve a recruitment surge associated with the Police Uplift Programme (linked to ££), and to tackle disproportionality in vetting refusals news.met.police.uk/news/met-con...

I am extremely confused as to why the UK government and police are saying Grok’s mass-scale CSAM generation is an issue for Ofcom. This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.

An image that captures what’s happening in Iran: a female protester raises a ripped down surveillance camera. Photo via the Hengaw Organisation for Human Rights.

Farage is a sycophantic goon and cannot hide it.

A mere one month from Trump winning the inaugural Fifa peace prize for his "exceptional and extraordinary actions for peace".

As it's #NationalScienceFictionDay in the US, I'm dusting this off again.

Bit late for the golden age of MTV, but loved this video for Therapy?’s Lonely Cryin’ Only youtu.be/hbTnqswdzXU?...

Post-2010 austerity was justified using theories of 'expansionary fiscal contraction'. These posit both aggregate demand and labour supply effects. The former refer to confidence effects: lower interest rates lead to a spending boom. It is now widely accepted that these effects failed to emerge.

“The Met has held intelligence for years of potential corruption linked to personal relationships formed through membership of the Freemasons, but nothing has been proved.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The potential errors were picked up by the Met itself. Other forces may have made similar errors…The bulk of the recruitment happened during the police uplift programme, putting forces under pressure to recruit large numbers quickly.

If anyone here has links to Charlton/Greenwich, this is a worthwhile local campaign

This is a remarkable case of Chinese authorities threatening a UK university into halting research on human rights violations, and the university acquiescing.

“You ruined my night completely so you could have the money and I hope now you can spend it on lessons in grace and decorum. Because you have all the grace of a reversing dump truck without any tyres on.”

Should we be worried that the leader of the current opposition treats her role as a kind of amateur debating club member?

A real head scratcher as to why Farage, who allegedly never intentionally directly racially abused anyone, keeps hiring people to his political party do numerous racisms

Canterbury Centre for Policing Research: Annual Conference 2026 Shaping Tomorrow's Policing: Evidence, Innovation and Impact 21-22 Jan 2026 eventshub.canterbury.ac.uk/s/conference...

Will be interested to see what comes next. Potentially a very radical police reformation in the pipeline in New York City

As expected the UK government is expanding its use of #facialrecognition technology from policing to immigration enforcement. www.gov.uk/government/p...

For anyone considering applying to the LSE please be aware that your faculty will be engaged in High Level Debate, and our advanced thinking may be a bit difficult for you to handle at first. We trust though that with time and our training you will be able to Ascend to our level.

Happy world toilet day, everyone! www.unwater.org/news/world-t...

The national anthem (UK) should be boycotted until we change it to one that is actually good (and represents a contemporary multicultural nation in the lyrics rather than reverence to outdated institutions)

“The abolition is a victory for chief constables & a sign of how influential they are in the Labour government’s thinking about policing. It also makes the merger and abolition of local forces, which chiefs want & government is considering, potentially easier.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

“There were no political or religious motivations. They were rich people who went there for fun and personal satisfaction. We are talking about people who love guns who perhaps go to shooting ranges or on safari in Africa.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

This year’s data tells us that last year’s data was wrong — Last year The Met claimed a 27% reduction in their use of s136 MHA - this year, they revised the numbers and ALL of that reduction disappeared.

“Some of the beauty parlours are selling them in this setting not realising that they are selling medicine that could end up giving them a custodial sentence … In both customer and seller there is a lack of awareness.” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Advisers told ministers banning Palestine Action could make it more popular

What is the reason to stop reporting foot patrol visibility figures? Odd, considering this comes as new Neighbourhood Policing strategy has been rolled out

Can anyone point me to any good examples of writing on equality vs equity as they relate to policing, ideally with specific reference to the public sector equality duty in the Equality Act 2010?

And as to the Trump speech to the January 6 mob - yes, he encouraged them. Listen to the speech. And if you still don't believe that Trump sided with the violent insurrectionists, remember that on the first day of his second term, Trump pardoned them all - some 1600 people charged or convicted.

We’ve made this investigation free to read because so many people in Sheffield are affected by this story. Our journalists have been knocking on doors for weeks and we’ve had to employ lawyers because of the legal threats made against us. We can only do this kind of journalism with your support.

Federal immigration cops are using "wellness checks" on minors as a ruse to get into homes and arrest people for alleged immigration violations. In this case, an alleged check on a 17-year-old let them arrest his 22-year-old brother, who was brought here at 11 and has protected status.

Are you a PhD student working on a criminological topic (broadly construed)? If so, then please consider applying to the LSE's inaugural criminology PhD Symposium: www.lse.ac.uk/social-polic...

Good illustration here of how international culture wars topics are consumed and deployed (in apparently nonsense fashion) by political movements www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Monty Python understood p-hacking

It's genuinely crackers that in the UK, a social media company can *take advertising money from a fraudster*, the bank has to repay the victim out of its pocket, and the social media company doesn't even have to give the advertising cash to the bank! They make money on the transaction!

The Tel Aviv derby was abandoned at half-time in Jan 2025. There were significant clashes in 2023 which led to unusual clashes at the basketball fixture, which was forfeited. The biggest clash was 2014 abandoned over Zahavi switching teams + fan violence www.insideworldfootball.com/2025/01/29/i...

We need two new full-time lecturers in #criminology here at @sheffielduni.bsky.social. One permanent share.google/RuTNSJWfvkuK... and one 12 month maternity cover share.google/xzf5icskztO9...

‘Consider football: the rough and tumble of our national game is nothing new…’ @accidentalp.bsky.social #accidentalPartridge

Is anyone else a bit taken back by the amount of energy being expended by the government here? www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

If the decision does get overturned, wouldn’t this potentially increase the risk of disorder to higher than it otherwise would have been? If the MTA fans resent the treatment by Villa and WMP, that surely is a new part of the risk profile.