If you don't like scrutiny, hand in your guns
More than 1,000 people are shot and killed by the police in the United States every year, according to a database compiled by The Washington Post.
More than 1,000 people are shot and killed by the police in the United States every year, according to a database compiled by The Washington Post.
Over the summer, we contributed to several news pieces, including on prison reform, witness anonymity, crime waves, police investigations and the Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence.
In our recent article in the Howard Journal for Crime and Justice we noted that police had become the default agency for responding to a wide range of social problems, including homelessness, mental health crisis, drug addiction and more.
The headline in this Guardian piece is somewhat misleading.
An article in today's Observer newspaper paints a worrying picture.
The recent report by the police Inspectorate on police vetting has garnered a great deal of publicity.
At our webinar on socially-distanced justice yesterday, Liz Fekete of the Institute of Race Relations argued that a focus on racial disproportionalities failed to address the real causes of criminalisation of young people.
We need to avoid a slide into a situation where shooting terrorism suspects dead becomes the norm, the Centre's director, Richard Garside, said today.
He was responding to events yesterday afternoon on Streatham High Road in south London, during which twenty-year old Sudesh Amman was shot dead by the police. This followed reports that he had stabbed at least two people and was wearing what...
The report from the Universities’ Police Science Institute provides welcome evaluation of the South Wales Police’s use of live facial recognition technology. Until today, the police were using...
With recent statements from senior police officers exposing the real challenges facing policing, it should be obvious the police are no longer able to address the social ills that perhaps, in...
In March, along with Netpol, we organised the launch of Alex S Vitale's book, The End of Policing.
Following revelations that undercover police officers infiltrated hundreds of political and justice campaigns in the UK, the government launched an Undercover Policing Inquiry in 2015.
Three years later, to cries of ‘no justice, no peace’, dozens of spying victims marched out of the latest Inquiry hearing, denouncing the process and calling for the resignation of presiding judge John Mitting.
Our Research Fellow Connor Woodman explains...