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Is stop and search really the answer to knife crime?
‘This is not an issue we will ever arrest or enforce our way out of.’ Commenting on young...
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Report on inequality in London
A report published by Children’s Rights Alliance for England mapping inequalities in outcomes for children in London indicates that children in Lambeth are 30 times...
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Policing a multicultural society in the 21st century
I wrote this blog a week or so after the death of Stuart Hall. I coudn't let its publication on the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies website go without mentioning the release of...
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Police can't be trusted to stop and search fairly
The former Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell, who resigned from his post over the 'plebgate' affair, calls for an end to police stop and search where there are no grounds for suspicion.
Writing in The Times:
'In 2011-12 Asian or Asian British people accounted for
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One quarter of police stop and searches illegal
A report from the Inspectorate of Constabulary has found that 27 percent of police stop and searches it reviewed did not did not have a lawful justification. Meanwhile, policing minister Damien Green...