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September 2026: Child-centred policing, an immature concept (opens the original)
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Dear StopWatchers,As autumn comes around and school returns (and parliament), so does activity focused on types of searches most intrusive to children. Siân Berry MP submitted questions to the government on body searches, while the Home Office begins to make plans to update policy on police strip-searches with a focus on children in the coming year.And the next few hundred-odd words are dedicated to the police’s grand theory on this subject: child-centred policing. Read on to find out what we ma
August 2026: Police confidence vs public safety (opens the original)
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Dear StopWatchers,There goes August, a quiet month filled with more police activity than we can reasonably cram into a readable e-newsletter for you.But in the end, all police scandal is essentially about (a chronic lack of) accountability, (resistance to) transparency, and (the avoidance of) scrutiny. No amount of reputation laundering, consent manufacture, and insistence on their sense of self-importance can change the fact that public faith in the institution rises and falls on these standard
July 2026: Differential treatment, again (opens the original)
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Dear StopWatchers,We come to the end of (yet) another month of police scandal, featuring an encounter that has made headlines for the degrading manner in which a Black boy was handcuffed and pinned to the floor by police over nothing, while his white friends were left alone.You might expect the same commentariat and politicians who were so quick to speculate about two-tier policing last month to voice their disgust at police handling of this incident too. But their silence, as the saying goes, i
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