www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article... It's rare we share articles from the Daily Fail, but this is worth noting. As our friends at #StopWatch have noted, it appears that #SUSLaw 2.0 may emerge. #WeCopWatch

BTP in 2023: 'Our priorities around Violence against Women and Girls remain at the top of the agenda' btpa.police.uk/wp-content/u... BTP in 2025: Officer who used unlawful force on a 15-year-old girl (put her in a headlock) during an arrest found guilty of assault www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Trialling the return of sus laws, are we? Tory party policy proposals on stop and search policing seek to drag us backwards 40 years www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Jermaine Baker, 28, was fatally shot by an officer known only as W80, a Metropolitan police officer, in Wood Green on 11 December 2015. He was unarmed. Now a police misconduct hearing has heard that the firearms officer used excessive force.

A firearms officer used excessive force when he shot dead 28-year-old Jermaine Baker in December 2015, a police misconduct hearing has been told www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

6 days left to support this fundraiser where a couple were targeted as suspected drug dealers by Met police officers #DrivingWhileBlack www.crowdjustice.com/case/help-an...

thebristolcable.org/2024/09/list... Habib Kadiri, executive director of StopWatch, discusses the significance of stop-and-search and how communities can push back. #WeCopWatch

📢Taser 10 has been authorised, which can also be used on children. ⚠️ Heavier barbs, higher velocity ⚠️ Requires skin penetration 📄 No Child Rights Impact Assessment We're calling for immediate suspension of rollout until children’s rights are fully considered. 🔗 Read our statement: bit.ly/4pPx1Pp

Last night’s Panorama documentary exposed clear racism, misogyny, and a culture of impunity within the Met. This endangers the public and fundamentally undermines trust and policing by consent. [1/4]

Calling for migrants to be shot. Dismissing rape complaints. Bragging about using excessive force. The Met remains institutionally racist, sexist & unaccountable. We need a police force that respects the communities it serves & works to keep us all safe.

September 2025 newsletter: Met chief defends choice not to use mass surveillance tech at a rally for racists, cites freedom of speech stopwatchuk.substack.com/p/september-...

💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥 POLICE SPIES OUT OF LIVES: STOP STATE-SPONSORED ABUSE OF WOMEN BY #SpyCops Survivors of the undercover policing scandal in conversation about their fight for justice. 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets @spiesoutoflives.bsky.social @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social

As Doreen Lawrence said of the #spycops: “They were doing the deception. Why should they be allowed to be anonymous while people like me had their faces all over the newspapers? These people were not innocent. They knew what they were doing.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015...

In 2021, four residents sued the county, resulting in a settlement where the sheriff's office acknowledged violations of rights. In the same police story, the Offender Management App violates human rights. #StopAutomatedRacism theconversation.com/predictive-p...

In a surprise to nobody who has ever had dealings with Charing Cross Police Station, nine officers are suspended over allegations of excessive use of force and making discriminatory and sexist comments between August 2024 and January 2025 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Nine Scotland Yard officers have been suspended after an investigation was launched into claims of excessive use of force and the making of discriminatory and misogynistic comments, centring on Charing Cross police station www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

We are hiring a new Executive Director! Could it be you? If so, please apply by 6 October! If not, please share widely. Role description and application portal here: buff.ly/Slyukaw

The Metropolitan Police have set up their live facial recognition van - a technology that is completely unregulated and prone to racial bias - in the midst of the Bangladeshi community in Whitechapel in east London @bigbrotherwatch.bsky.social

August 2025 newsletter: Racial recognition Face-scanning technology used at Black cultural event cements a new vector of racialised overpolicing open.substack.com/pub/stopwatc...

Following this year's Notting Hill carnival, this blog post looks at the proliferation of the algorithmic technologies and their impact on the policing of marginalised communities www.stop-watch.org/news-opinion...

6. 👮‍♀️ Just 49% of people believe the police do "an excellent or good job", while satisfaction with how crime is handled fell to a new low. @stopwatchuk.bsky.social said "people increasingly sense that they do more harm than good" 📝 @claramargotin.bsky.social www.farnhamherald.com/news/less-th...

NEW: Perceptions of Police Just 49% of people in England and Wales believe the police does "an excellent or good job" @stopwatchuk.bsky.social‬ said there is a "growing disillusionment with the police" and questioned whether the service is still "fit for purpose" 🔗: app.radarai.com

I agree with Mia! "Mia Kaivanto, 18, raised concerns about data privacy. She said: "More surveillance isn't necessarily equivalent to more efficient arrests."" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

stopwatchuk.substack.com/p/july-2025-... Police chiefs feel more endangered by the smell of cannabis than by incidents involving officer misconduct. This raises questions about priorities and safety perceptions.#PublicSafety

Facial recognition cameras too racially biased to use at Notting Hill carnival, say campaigners

🚨🚨🚨 We don't need more facial recognition vans on our streets We NEED legislation to protect us all from this unregulated tech www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As public concern grows over the recent proscription of Palestine Action, @katiemcfadden.bsky.social joins Peter Caldwell on Talk TV to outline practical steps for protestors and defends the principle of dissent at the heart of democracy. 1/4 #PalestineAction #RightToProtest #CivilDisobedience

A total of 39 Thames Valley police officers and staff have been sacked after sexual misconduct was proven against them over recent years. A report said said 321 allegations were made between April 2020 and the end of June, with 48% classed as having a "case to answer" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Shaun Thompson, who is bringing a High Court challenge against the Metropolitan Police after live facial recognition technology wrongly identified him as a suspect, has described it as "stop and search on steroids" and called for structural change www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

👁️ Technology that is capable of tracking and identifying any one of us MUST have laws governing it That's why it's concerning that the Met police are more than DOUBLING their use of facial recognition tech Join our campaign against this tech: action.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/page/167674/...

Met police to more than double use of live facial recognition

July 2025 newsletter: 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 open.substack.com/pub/stopwatc...

Reminder: this morning at 9.30 if you're near Stockwell in London

Smaller, but tougher Our new report, out today, reveals that fewer young adults are being sent to prison than a decade ago, but those who are imprisoned are getting much longer sentences #SmallerButTougher

The death of Jean Charles de Menezes is a stain on our national conscience that must never be forgotten - or repeated.

Today marks 20 years since the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes. None of the police officers involved were disciplined, let alone prosecuted. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Important new report on schools policing from @libertyhq.bsky.social released today. www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/polici... We note several interesting observations from the research 🧵

Schools should be places of learning, not surveillance. But for some students, police are teaching & patrolling hallways. There’s no strong evidence that this improves safety. That’s why we’ve launched our NEW report: Policing the Playground. www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/polici...

Maria's treatment by Greater Manchester Police (GMP) was so shocking the chief constable described it as "undefendable". Surprised that there is a limit as to what makes for a "defendable" police action, but we have found one news.sky.com/story/woman-...

Good to know that police chiefs can signal to rank-and-file officers to ignore the inference from PACE Code A over searching on the basis of the smell of cannabis alone. This will lead to many more successful finds, of course 🙄 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Important @ethnicityuk.bsky.social research project exploring the presence and impact of police in schools across England. Find out more via the link: www.ethnicity.ac.uk/research/pro...

A new project from @ethnicityuk.bsky.social‬ is collecting testimonies on experiences of policing in school. They want to hear from students, parents, carers, teachers, staff and others. Share your thoughts via WhatsApp, email, or online, using the link below 👇 www.ethnicity.ac.uk/research/pro...

June 2025 newsletter: Child-centred police abuse stopwatchuk.substack.com/p/june-2025-...

Stop strip-searching children. My statement following the outcome of the misconduct hearing for the officers who strip-searched Child Q - 2 dismissed/1 final warning. We’re being told that race played no part in the violence that Child Q was subjected to. www.london.gov.uk/zoe-garbett-...

Two Met police officers who strip-searched Child Q at a London school in 2020 committed gross misconduct, a hearing has found. A third was judged to have committed misconduct. The panel did not think age or race played a factor in the treatment of Child Q. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A(n) (in)famous example of how the lack of a requirement for ‘honest’ beliefs to be ‘reasonable’ has allowed cases of police brutality to go unprosecuted www.stop-watch.org/news-opinion...

Big Tech. Small Data. Immoderate Injustice. 'Crime-predicting' police tech is the new line of offence from the coppers who brought you institutional racism. Overpoliced communities can expect more of the same. Sign our petition to BAN it ➡️ you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ba...