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No suspicion, no better off
Home Office figures show a sharp rise in section 60 searches but no positive impact on outcomes from it
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26.09.2024
Terrorism search powers, a tale of paranoia and perceived Muslim threat
A brief analysis of latest dataset on police use of terrorism stop and search powers
news
17.06.2024
(Why) do Londoners back stop and search?
StopWatch looks at the Centre for Social Justice's report 'Serious violence in London'
news
26.04.2024
Concerns raised about stop and search charter survey
Assembly Member Caroline Russell pens letter to the Met leadership; StopWatch issues statement
news
22.03.2024
StopWatch's response to the investigation into the super-complaint over section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act
The Criminal Justice Alliance were right the first time; section 60 does more harm than good
news
15.12.2023
Half of all use of force incidents involve handcuffs
Statisticians put increases in incidents down to improved recording practices; racial disparities persist
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30.11.2023
StopWatch responds to outcome of Ricardo dos Santos and Bianca Williams case
A disciplinary tribunal has found two Met officers guilty of gross misconduct over their treatment of Black athletes Ricardo dos Santos and Bianca Williams during a stop and search in 2020.
news
25.10.2023
Police powers procedures 2022/23: Section 60 signals lost in the noise
Little change in stop search data trends; importance of ethnic disparities downplayed
news
27.09.2023
StopWatch signs open letter in response to the Met's 'turnaround plan'
StopWatch, in coalition with Runnymede Trust and 24 other racial justice organisations, calls out Met commissioner Mark Rowley's 'A New Met for London' plan.
news
02.08.2023
Supreme court rule on police conduct law and dismiss appeal of officer who shot Jermaine Baker
Judges also call for clarity over police code of ethics
news
05.07.2023
New dashboard puts stop and search back on the map
Interactive tracker displays data for every police force in England and Wales
news
05.06.2023
Human rights groups raise alarm over new police powers
A coalition of human rights groups has raised concerns about the piloting of Serious Violence Reduction Orders (SVROs) which give new stop-and-search powers to police forces
news
19.04.2023
Overall fall in annual stop and searches hides other patterns in street policing operations
As the pandemic effect recedes, 2022 figures highlight something many minoritised communities knew at the time: the oppressive nature of lockdown policing
news
27.10.2022
Girls in the House
Sydney Kirton describes the London team's trip to the Houses of Parliament to present the latest findings from the women and girls research project
projects
24.06.2022
Bedfordshire scrutiny panel changes hands
Chair Montell Neufville steps down after 5 years, cites successes of the system
opinion
18.02.2022
Stop and search, a young person's burden
New Home Office dataset shows rise in overall stop and searches, but masks a complex story of moral panic towards young people, especially of colour
news
18.11.2021
Police's terror search activity limited by COVID-19 threat
Falls in section 43 and Schedule 7 stops under the Terrorism Act 2000 caused by multiple lockdown measures imposed during pandemic outbreak
news
10.06.2021
Stop and searches increase 50% – racial disparity remains the same
New data finds Black people stopped and searched 9 times more than White people in England and Wales
news
27.10.2020
Widening racial disparity in stop and searches
New data finds Black people stopped and searched 10 times more than White people in England and Wales
news
25.10.2019
Neomi Bennett's stop and search story gets national coverage
Covered in the Metro
news
24.10.2019