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...
After Alex S Vitale's appearance at Conway Hall last week to launch his new book, The End of Policing, our Research Fellow Connor Woodman and Novara's Sam Swann discuss with Alex the role of police in society and ask what the alternatives might be.
Listen to the podcast here.
This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the unlawful killing of Christopher Alder in a police station in Hull.
His sister, Janet Alder, has spent the subsequent years campaigning to bring the circumstances of his death to light. She has, as a consequence, been the victim of police surveillance by Humberside police. It was only officially confirmed to Janet that she had been under surveillance after the...
Custody in police stations is a very locked-down affair. People who have been arrested and are detained spend most of the time isolated in their cells.
The police are building a near 'impenetrable wall of silence' around some of their most secret and harmful practices, according to a new report out today.
The report shows that over six years on from revelations about police infiltration of political activist groups, and more than two years since the establishment of a public inquiry to investigate their activity, little more has come to light about undercover policing practices.
The report...
For decades, hundreds of police officers carried out secret operations against a wide range of political and trade union activists.
The Undercover Policing Inquiry, which still has not considered any evidence in public, is at a crossroads. It has already been marred by...
