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Analysis: The Panic Around ‘County Lines’ Is Legitimising Expanded Policing Powers

by Lauren E Wroe

In the name of 'safeguarding' children, the Home Office has just rebranded old anti-gang policies that overwhelmingly criminalise young people from minoritised communities.

A police officer stands outside Didsbury mosque in Manchester.

Report: Black People Nearly Eight Times More Likely to Be Banned From Manchester Carnival

by Moya Lothian-McLean

Novara Media has uncovered huge racial disparities in gang-related carnival bans handed out by Greater Manchester Police.

Report: The Met Could Be Sued Over Its Racist Gang Database

by Sophie K Rosa

A Black musician, with the help of legal advocacy groups, is trying to take the Met to court over its discriminatory watchlist of young people supposedly involved in ‘gangs’. Sophie K Rosa reports.

The Lockdown: What Is Abolition?

Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann finish this season of The Lockdown with a recap of what they've discussed in the previous episodes. Sam talks about what he's learnt and they decide whether he's ready to graduate from the podcast's 'resident idiot'.

The Lockdown: Guilty by Association: How to Get a Life Sentence for a Murder You Didn’t Commit

Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann speak to activist and founder of campaign group Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association (JENGbA), Gloria Morrison.

The Lockdown: Ending the Cycle of Violence

On The Lockdown, Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann speak to anti-violence practitioner Whitney Iles about youth violence, why it happens and how to stop it.

3 Myths About Riots

by Callum Cant

Riots are often individualised; put down to criminality, gangs, and moral decline, rather than treated as political eruptions. Here are 3 correctives to some common myths about riots.

Will Sadiq Khan’s Election Make a Difference to the Policing of London’s ‘Gangs’?

by Harry Stopes

Following the pilot of Operation Shield, Boris Johnson's controversial scheme for dealing with 'gang crime' in London, Sadiq Khan has given no indication of whether he intends to roll it out across the city.

The Disappearance of 43 Students in Mexico: One Year On

by London Mexico Solidarity

A little over a year ago, 43 students from a radical teacher training college disappeared in Ayotzinapa after being attacked by police. Mass protests marked the anniversary, the state's investigation having failed and Mexico's human rights crisis blown open.