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No reasonable grounds: the case for repealing section 60
Report argues for scrapping the controversial search power on human rights grounds
research
14.11.2024
Ideological racism: why the police institution must move beyond ‘bad apples’ towards structural and institutional understandings of racism
An analysis of the white racial ideology of the British police.
opinion
16.09.2024
Defunding the police is good for our mental health
StopWatch members' article published in Political Quarterly journal
research
13.09.2024
Beyond the badge: deep-rooted problems in policing
On the latest report by His Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary and why the culture inside the police force has enabled systematic failures to endure.
opinion
21.08.2024
From stop and search to ‘stop and engage’
Enduring concerns regarding the social control of young people in Scotland
opinion
27.05.2024
SVROs: The pilot scheme, 6 months in
Six months on from the launch of the controversial SVROs, what have we learnt so far?
research
01.11.2023
SVROs: What is the Home Office trying to hide?
An update on our research project on Serious Violence Reduction Orders (SVROs)
research
20.10.2023
My experience as a co-researcher for StopWatch’s girls research project
Sydney provides a moving testament of how the girls' research project process has affected her perceptions of policing
projects
25.05.2022
Girls and young women's research project: Week 1
Sydney recounts the beginnings of an exciting new project
projects
11.03.2022
The colour of injustice: ‘Race’, drugs and law enforcement in England and Wales
New report documents the disproportionate impact that drug law enforcement continues to have on black and minority ethnic communities in England and Wales
research
13.10.2018
Most ‘stop and search’ is ineffective and fails communities worst affected by knife crime
Read our press release on the latest police recorded crime figures for 2016/17 that report an increase in violent crime
research
24.07.2017
The use of Tasers in London
On the same day the Home Office published Police use of Tasers statistics in England and Wales, StopWatch publishes data obtained by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) around the use of Tasers in London. Contrary to the Home Office, our report highlights data about the disproportionate use of these weapons against the black community
research
28.04.2016
Vehicle stops and strip searches - the methodology of our recent findings
Two weeks ago the Guardian reported our findings of a) increasing and discriminatory vehicle stops, and b) the facts (and lack thereof) concerning strip searches in the context of stop-and-searches. To accompany this report, and lay the groundwork for relevant, upcoming StopWatch briefings, we offer this discussion of some of the methodology and sources behind these findings.
news
17.02.2014
Asian people 42 times more likely to be stopped under schedule 7
Following a Freedom of Information request by StopWatch partners The Federation Of Student Islamic Societies (FOSIS), it has been revealed that ethnic minorities are vastly more likely to be stopped in airports and ports under controversial anti-terror legislation
research
25.05.2011
