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Campaigns

Where you can view completed and ongoing StopWatch campaigns on various areas of policing

OUT OF ORDER

Critiques of stop-search powers granted to police forces as part of the civil orders legislation framework
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Our campaign challenging a controversial stop and search power
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Community safety: Reimagined

Partnerships with frontline social action groups in marginalised and racialised communities advocating for a form of safety free of police influence
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Change makers

Our project inspiring young people to make a difference
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Driving While Black

Revisiting the 'Driving While Black' research report, which explored racially discriminatory policing on the roads, and launching new research on the topic
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Serious Violence Reduction Orders (SVROs)

A collaborative venture with the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, shining a spotlight on these new civil orders and their piloting
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Girls and young women's research project

A national research project speaking to young women about their experiences of stop and search
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The gangs matrix*

A handy explainer on the gangs matrix – what it is, how it works, why it is harmful, and what to do if you find yourself on it
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Judicial review of the Best Use of Stop and Search scheme

StopWatch and Liberty launch legal challenge over the home secretary's decision to drop all safeguards on section 60 search tactics from the Best Use of Stop and Search (BUSS) scheme, announced on 27 July 2021 as part of the UK government’s ‘Beating Crime Plan’
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RAW

RAW is StopWatch’s exciting new ‘Rights and Wellbeing’ project, aimed at providing resources, group workshops, and individual support to equip individuals with the knowledge of preventing and reducing harm from police encounters, while also addressing the broader impacts of stop and search by providing therapeutic support to help people process and deal with its after-effects.
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