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Stop And Search
Stops And Knives
Read Whole PostReading Time: < 1 minute A week or so ago, one of my e-friends from X was Twitter asked whether I had an update on my comparison of Stop/Searches against…
This Troubles Me
Read Whole PostReading Time: 2 minutes In fact, this troubles me greatly. THREE years ago 5 Metropolitan Police Officers stopped a motor vehicle containing a couple of athletes. I have previously…
Time To Kick The Home Office (Metaphorically)
Read Whole PostReading Time: 4 minutes A short while ago I found some Met stats that enabled me to quantify the number of weapons that had been recovered as an Unintended…
Those Pesky Drugs Stops
Read Whole PostReading Time: 2 minutes Before I begin, I need to make it clear that anything you read here only applies to those pesky drugs stops in the Metropolitan Police…
Stop And Search, The Work Of The Devil, Right?
Read Whole PostReading Time: 3 minutes I wasn’t intending to write anything at all this morning, but this headline from the Grauniad changed my mind. Met police criticised for multiple errors…
Trial By Social Media Or RIP Without Fear Or Favour? You Decide
Read Whole PostReading Time: 4 minutes It can’t have escaped your notice that, over the past few months or longer, a practice has really taken off of filming the Police going…
Available Population And Racial Profiling
Read Whole PostReading Time: 4 minutes What on earth is he talking about? I hear you ask. WTF is Available Population and what does it have to do with me? Pour…
Without Fear Or Favour
Read Whole PostReading Time: 2 minutes Just a short post today, and then I’m off to take my meds and lie in a darkened room. Two athletes that I have never…
Stops, Knife Crime & BLM. What Is Going On In London?
Read Whole PostReading Time: 4 minutes Last night my attention was drawn to this tweet from Norman Brennan. BREAKING NEWS; This message has just arrived by DM from a very Senior…
Stop And Search – A Peace Offering (Of Sorts)
Read Whole PostReading Time: 4 minutes There has been much animated discussion on Twatter over the weekend on the thorny subject of Stop and Search. There have been suggestions (often ignored),…
