Analysis: The Police Are Psychics Now, Apparently
by Rivkah Brown
Rivkah Brown explains the latest amendments to the public order bill.
Tag: Policing
Analysis: The UK Has Its Own Mass Incarceration Crisis
by Ell Folan
The UK now spends £5bn a year on prisons, more than any other European country besides Russia, writes Ell Folan.
Long Read: Mental Healthcare Often Isn’t Care at All
by Micha Frazer-Carroll
Carceral approaches to mental healthcare are on the rise in Britain. This should worry us all, argues Micha Frazer-Carroll.
Analysis: People Want Action on Climate Change But Also Want Climate Protesters Locked Up
by Ell Folan
Two-thirds of Britons fear climate breakdown. They also want to make it harder for activists to do something about it. Ell Folan unpicks some contradictory opinions.
Analysis: Why Are We Still Pretending This Police Watchdog Is Independent?
by Larry Lock
Families bereaved at the hands of the police are forced to turn to the Independent Office for Police Conduct. But justice is hard to come by when the watchdog is only out to protect its own.
Report: Police Commissioner Says Journalists Are ‘Part of the Problem’ After Arrest of Just Stop Oil Reporters
by Moya Lothian-McLean
After Hertfordshire police detained journalists covering Just Stop Oil protests this week, the force’s commissioner has suggested the media should ‘reflect’ on giving activists ‘publicity’.
Report: This Protester Committed No Crime But Is Going to Prison Anyway
by Denise Laura Baker & Josie Argyle
On 23 September, climate activist Elliott Cuciurean was sentenced to 268 days in prison. He hadn't committed any crime, but instead had breached HS2's injunction. Denise Laura Baker and Josie Argyle report on the privatisation of protest policing.
Analysis: DNA Phenotyping is the Latest Racist Addition to Policing Technology
by Sanjana Varghese
DNA phenotyping is closer to ‘science fiction’ than reality, but police forces are using it anyway.
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: Animal Rebellion Activists on Why They’re Emptying Supermarkets of Milk to Save the Climate
by Sophie K Rosa
Animal Rebellion is mid-way through a two-week direct action campaign that claims to have emptied supermarket shelves of milk, in a bid to force the government to support a just transition away from animal agriculture. Sophie K Rosa reports.
Opinion: Why Should Chris Kaba’s Death Matter Less Than the Queen’s?
by Kehinde Andrews
Three days before Elizabeth Windsor died, Chris Kaba did. The establishment’s apathy is testament to the very racism the monarch embodies, writes Kehinde Andrews.
Report: Manchester Police Probably Broke the Law With ‘Racist’ Carnival Bans
by Moya Lothian-McLean
Exclusive: Manchester police are investigating whether they broke the law with 'racist' letters that banned alleged 'gang members' from carnival.
Analysis: How State-Sanctioned Multiculturalism Killed Radical Anti-Racism in Britain
by Ilyas Nagdee & Azfar Shafi
The 1980s saw grassroots solidarity-building supplanted by milquetoast representation politics, write Azfar Shafi and Ilyas Nadgee in this extract from their new book.
NovaraFM: Truncheons at Dawn
When a filmmaker and a solicitor investigated the policing of protest, they found secret manuals, imperial legacies and dirty tricks.
Opinion: I’m a Therapist, Not a Cop
by Erene Hadjiioannou
New government guidance is supposed to make it easier for victims to talk about their perpetrators' crimes in therapy. The catch? Prosecutors may be able to access their therapy notes.
Feature: Couriers Stunt Dalston’s Gentrification. The Police and Council Want Them Gone
by Rivkah Brown
Saturday night’s immigration raid in Dalston, north London is part of a years-long effort to cleanse the area of its brown and Black couriers. Rivkah Brown reports.
Feature: How to Intervene in a Police Stop
by UK Cop Watch
The crisis of faith in policing has made many people want to take matters into their own hands. UK Cop Watch advises how.
Opinion: Keir Starmer is Getting a Taste of His Own Cop Medicine
by Moya Lothian-McLean
'Beergate' is what happens when you preach a politics of punishment, argues Moya Lothian-McLean.