No tracking. No cookies
Subscriptions
SubscriptionsCategory: Policing
-
Pestminster and the Shaming of Democracy
With reports that 56 MPs are facing allegations of sexual misconduct, Rachel Morris analyses how a Bullingdon Club mentality has seeped into the corridors of power
-
‘Racial Profiling’: Black People Disproportionately Targeted by Transport for London Fixed Penalty Notices
As the Prime Minister continues to be investigated for COVID law-breaking, Dimitris Dimitriadis explores the penalties heavily issued to minority ethnic groups
-
Talking About My Generation: How the Conservative Party has Punished Young People
From mental health services to tuition fees, the Government has damaged the welfare and prosperity of the next generation, writes Daisy Steinhardt
-
The Families of People Killed by Police Are Taking Matters Into Their Own Hands
‘Almost none of us have got justice. The first was Sarah Everard’, said Marcia Rigg, who is part of a new campaign to secure justice for people killed in police custody
-
Controversial Met Knife Crime Scheme Disproportionately Targets Black People
Data exposed by the Byline Intelligence Team reveals the racial biases of another London policing programme
-
Corruption Fatigue: The Conservative Plan to Quash its Partygate and Russia Scandals
Sam Bright explores the psychological warfare enacted by Boris Johnson and his party to buttress its political position
-
Far-Right Infiltration: The Extremists Hiding in Germany’s Police and Military
Some serving police and military personnel in Germany are plotting for ‘Day X’ – a far-right conspiracy that seeks to overthrow democracy and launch a race war
-
Surge in Knife Crime Under Conservative Rule Exposes Johnson’s Lies
Sabrina Lavrut investigates the claim that ‘personal’ crimes have been falling under the Conservatives
-
Expert Raises Concerns as 11 Police Forces Issue 144 Non-Disclosure Agreements
As police misconduct once again creates headlines, Sascha Lavin uncovers the regular use of secrecy agreements among local forces
-
Sue Gray’s Full Report May Never be Published, Says Downing Street
Boris Johnson’s spokesman refuses to confirm that redacted details will ever be published, reports Adam Bienkov
-
Police’s Privileged Treatment of Government Confirms It’s One Rule for Them, Another for the Rest of Us
David Hencke, who sat on the Gosport War Memorial Hospital inquiry, explores why Dame Cressida Dick’s decision to redact large parts of the Sue Gray report is such a departure from the norm
-
The Metropolitan Police Comes to Boris Johnson’s Rescue in Downing Street ‘Stitch-Up’
Scotland Yard is accused of an The Met is accused of an ‘establishment stitch-up’ after asking Sue Gray to censor references to illegal Downing Street parties in her report on illegal Downing Street parties
-
Dead Cats and Media Mayhem: What Is Happening Outside Westminster?
As the headlines focus on Partygate, and the talking heads debate what Partygate tells us about this Government, what has the Government been up to?
-
The Gray Report: Misleading Parliament and Misconduct in Public Office
Lawyer Gareth Roberts looks beyond the breaking of lockdown rules to the wider implications and legal standing of the much anticipated Cabinet Office report
-
Boris Johnson is Using Police Investigation into Downing Street Parties to Block Sue Gray’s Report
The Prime Minister is now in the desperate position of hiding behind a police investigation into himself, reports Adam Bienkov
-
Enabling Acts: Citizenship of Quarter of Britons at Risk as Conservatives Construct an Authoritarian Legal Infrastructure
Nafeez Ahmed analyses eight bills which, taken as a whole, reveal an unprecedented and undemocratic ethno-nationalist power grab
-
The Metropolitan Police is Complicit in Downing Street Law-Breaking
The Met has outsourced the decision on whether to investigate a crime into the hands of the institution accused of committing it, says Adam Bienkov
-
‘The Met’s Reputation is More Important than My Safety’: Can the Sarah Everard Murder Inquiry Rebuild Women’s Trust in Policing?
Women’s groups have raised concerns that the narrow confines of the Angiolini Inquiry – combined with a failure to grapple with women’s safety – means lessons won’t be learned
-
A Portrait of Broken Britain
Sam Bright explores the social, political and economic crises that have been stoked by successive Conservative administrations
-
Otto English’s 2021 Round-Up: Part One
Brexit, Coronavirus, insurrection – the first five months of the year were packed with concerning developments on many fronts
-
Police Corruption: A Half-Century Wait for Justice
Duncan Campbell on another victim of a corrupt police sergeant who framed young black men in the 1970s
-
Tracking Without Transparency: Met Police Expands Social Media Surveillance Operations
A secretive database using covert methods to monitor social media platforms is recording more and more data on individuals who may or may not be involved in crime
-
The Thin Green Line: Public Sector Failures on Climate Aims Revealed
Despite the Government push towards electric vehicles for all UK car owners, 98% of police vehicles are currently not ultra low-emission
-
Boris Johnson Betrays a Common Misunderstanding of Misogyny
Making hateful behaviour directed at women because of their sex a hate crime does not mean adding cat-calls to the statute books, says Sian Norris
-
Assaults on British Transport Police More Than Doubled Per Passenger Last Year
Attacks on transport staff have increased markedly during the pandemic, relative to passenger numbers, reports Sascha Lavin
-
Reports of Police Domestic Abuse Increase by 49% During Pandemic
Data from a Freedom of Information request shows that incidents of domestic abuse where a police officer was the alleged perpetrator dramatically increased between April 2020 and March 2021
-
114 Women Died in the Past Decade in Domestic-Related Incidents Following Previous Contact with Police
Data from the Independent Office of Police Conduct raises questions about the safeguarding of women known to be experiencing violence by partners
-
Can Women Be Safe in Britain when the Police Fail to Hold their Own to Account?
It’s been a bad week for violence against women, with a young woman killed on London’s streets and an exclusive report of how police found guilty of sexual misconduct keep their jobs – even when that job exposes them to victims of sexual violence
-
‘Police are Institutionally Sexist’: 14 Officers Targeted Vulnerable Women for Sex
Exclusive analysis of freedom of information requests by the Byline Intelligence Team reveals how police officers abuse their power over witnesses and victims to get sex
-
Three-Quarters of Police Officers Guilty of Gross Negligence in Sex Crimes Kept their Jobs
Freedom of information requests analysed by the Byline Intelligence Team reveal that police officers are failing in their duty of care to vulnerable victims and witnesses when investigating claims relating to sexual assault
-
More Than Half of Met Police Officers Found Guilty of Sexual Misconduct Kept their Jobs
A Freedom of Information request analysed by the Byline Intelligence Team reveals the extent to which the capital’s police officers work in a culture of impunity around sexual misconduct
-
‘It Felt like a War Zone’: Ten Years On From Dale Farm
Ahead of the 10 year anniversary of its clearance next month, Katharine Quarmby recounts the last days of Dale Farm, the eviction of the largest Traveller site in Europe, and considers its lasting legacy
-
Vast Majority of Young Female Offenders are Victims of Sexual and Domestic Abuse
Despite high rates of victimisation of young women offenders, survivors of rape and abuse are criminalised – and this is set to get worse under the new Police, Crime, Courts and Sentencing Bill, campaigners warn
-
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Government Cannot Say if it has Trained Indonesian Police Forces Implicated in Human Rights Abuses
A Freedom of Information request to the Ministry of Defence found that the Government does not hold information about who it trains in Indonesia
-
Myanmar Police Force Trained by British Officers Under EU Scheme
Between 2013 and 2020, the UK College of Policing also spent more than £20 million selling its services around the world
-
‘Met Police Response to its Institutional Corruption is a Form of Institutional Corruption’
The chair of the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel says the Metropolitan Police’s immediate denial of systemic issues of corruption in the force demonstrates the very problem its report into a 34-year-old unsolved murder highlighted
-
‘It’s Scary’: Thousands of Criminal Cases Collapsing Due to Missing and Lost Evidence
Wil Crisp reports on exclusive data showing that more than 11,000 criminal cases collapsed in less than two years amid a crisis in evidence storage
-
From George Orwell to Priti Patel: How Britain Brought its Colonial Policing Home
As the Metropolitan Police is judged to be institutionally corrupt, Hardeep Matharu and Peter Jukes explore how some of the biggest problems still plaguing British policing are embedded in the soil of British colonialism
-
Conservative Councillor Turned Anti-Lockdown Advocate at Centre of Nick Watt Abuse Incident
Sam Bright and Sian Norris explore the growing threat to journalists and press freedom from conspiracy theorists with large online followings
-
The Daniel Morgan Report: Press Criminality? Nothing to See Here…
Brian Cathcart explains why the Daniel Morgan Independent Panel report confirms law-breaking and wrongdoing by the press – and how, once again, this will be ignored by the mainstream media
-
The Daniel Morgan Report: From ‘Institutional Racism’ to ‘Institutional Corruption’: No ‘Hierarchy of Sickness’ in Met Police Failures, says Morgan Family
Institutional corruption is wide-ranging, says Alastair Morgan, after the independent panel report into his brother’s 1987 murder is finally published
-
The Daniel Morgan Murder: The Silencing of David Cook
James Doleman interviews the man once described by the family of Daniel Morgan as the only Metropolitan Police detective they ever trusted
-
The Daniel Morgan Murder and Police Corruption: The Evolution of the ‘Firm within a Firm’
From the Dirty Squad’s Soho days to Andy Coulson in the heart of government, Jake Arnott explains how bent coppers moved on from trading in porn and gold bullion, to information and kompromat
