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Published in: openJusticeChildren in custody need protection, not cruelty and bullyingRecent HMIC report found "inexcusably poor practices" by police towards children in custody. A cultural shift is...
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Published in: openSecurityCommunity policing? Achieving more realistic resultsIt has become fashionable for first-world donors to embrace ‘community policing’ for developing-world security...
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Published in: openSecurityAfter Garissa, Kenya needs to break the cycleThe massacre at a university in Kenya should lead the government to a recognition that repressive and discriminatory...
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Published in: openSecuritySouth Africa’s parliament and the politicisation of the policeThe police were a symbol of the old, apartheid South Africa. Unfortunately they are becoming a symbol of the ‘new...
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Published in: openSecurityKenya’s outlaw police
Developments in Kenya show what happens when “counter-terrorist” police and other security forces are not subject to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK#IPCCFail – the police complaints watchdog’s “decade of failure”It's ten years since the Independent Police Complaints Commission was founded, and they've utterly failed.
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Published in: openSecurityFish rot from the head
Torture is routine practice in South Africa's police stations and prisons. A lineage of impunity, traced from...
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Published in: openSecurityFive thoughts on abolishing the Met
Whilst seemingly necessary and incisive, recent calls to 'abolish' London's Metropolitan police do not go nearly far enough.
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Published in: openSecurity"Our self-confidence is the main reason for police harassment..."For adivasis in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, economic exploitation and social degradation go hand in...
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Published in: openSecurityUnreformable: an end to stop-and-frisk in NYC?
Under Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelley stop-and-frisk has been a racist technology of control...
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Published in: openSecurityDeaths in British police custody: no convicted officers since 1969
827 people have died during or following police contact since 2004. Families have struggled hard for justice,...
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Published in: openSecurityChasing accountability; facing impunity
Bahrain's attempt to hold the state security services to account is channeled through campaigning, lobbying and of...
