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A line of police officers block the entrance to Ashwin Street in Dalston, north London

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.

Police officers stop and search a man on a back street in the Brixton neighbourhood of London August 14, 2008. REUTERS/Andrew Winning (BRITAIN)

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.

Henry Chango Lopez, general secretary of the, Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain, holds a metaphone. In front of him a sign that reads: LSHTM: End Structural Racism.

Report: A Prestigious London University Has Suspended Four Latinx Cleaners for Protesting Racist Pay, Falsely Accusing Them of Violence

by Polly Smythe

The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is embroiled in another race scandal. Polly Smythe reports.

A woman hangs a placard on the wall outside Stoke Newington police station during the demonstration. The strip search of a 15-year old black schoolgirl known as Child Q by Metropolitan Police officers while menustruating has triggered angry protests demanding ìpolice out of schools.î She was wrongly accused of cannabis possession.

Opinion: You Can Have Schooling or You Can Have Policing. You Can’t Have Both

by Khadijah Anabah

The case of Child Q proves that education is incompatible with the carceral state, argues Khadijah Anabah.

Koshka Duff standing outside court in a suit

Opinion: The Met Just Apologised After Strip-Searching Me. I Don’t Believe a Word of It

by Koshka Duff

For eight years before their recent U-turn, the officers who assaulted Koshka Duff claimed they were just doing their jobs. They were right, she says: sexual violence is policing’s bread and butter.

Analysis: The Navy Wants Nothing to Do With the Tories’ War on Migrants

by Daniel Sohege

The Home Office’s plans to militarise the Channel are illegal - and the navy wants no part in them, writes Daniel Sohege.

A demonstrator skateboards in front of a burning police vehicle during a protest against a new proposed policing bill, in Bristol, Britain, March 21, 2021

Long Read: What Happened to Kill the Bill?

by Rivkah Brown

The PCSC bill is on the brink of entering law, and yet the movement to kill it has all but evaporated. Activists haven’t given up, though - they’re simply changing gear to a longer-term project of abolition. Rivkah Brown reports.

Downstream: The Daniel Morgan Murder Inquiry

The murder of Daniel Morgan in 1987 is back in the spotlight with the official inquiry report soon to be published. Ash Sarkar discusses the case with Daniel’s brother, Alastair Morgan.

Novara FM: Police State of Mind

Rivkah Brown presents a special episode examining how the blue tentacles of police power creep into our lives.

Downstream: How Britain’s Police Spied on the Left

The Undercover Policing Inquiry is examining the infiltration of more than 1,000 political groups by British police since 1968. How much has been disclosed? And will more revelations come to light? Aaron Bastani talks to Tom Fowler of the Spycops Info podcast.

A British police officer wearing a blue shirt, yellow vest and protective goggles holds up a Taser at a shooting range.

Analysis: A Brief History of the Taser, the ‘Less-Lethal’ Police Weapon That Keeps Killing People

A police officer is finally standing trial for the death of footballer Dalian Atkinson, who died after being tased for six times longer than standard practice. The case has reignited debate around the police’s most controversial weapon and the company that produces it, writes Sandeep Sandhu.