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Published in: 50.50: NewsBaird Inquiry is ‘lip service’, says woman alleging police sexual abuse
Zayna Iman, who says cops stripped, drugged and sexually assaulted her, has ‘zero faith’ in Greater Manchester inquiry
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Published in: Home: NewsNo new cash for health services when they take over mental health callouts
The government says it is providing £150m – but the money was announced in 2021, and none will go towards new staff
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureKicked out of court for crying: ‘How the inquest system failed my cousin’
Gaia Pope was failed by the police and NHS – and now by the justice system. Her cousin speaks to openDemocracy
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Published in: Home: NewsHow Britain’s new laws doubly criminalise Black, Asian and Gypsy people
Protesters warn of the combined threat of the Policing Bill and Nationality and Borders Bill
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Published in: Home: NewsStarmer’s car industry funding revealed as he backs action on oil protests
The Labour leader has called for injunctions against green protesters. Now it has emerged two of his biggest donors...
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Published in: Home: NewsPolice drug-testing pilot disproportionately targets Black people
Exclusive: South Yorkshire Police was given £32,000 for the scheme, but is now facing questions over racism
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Published in: digitaLiberties: OpinionSuspicious algorithms: time to tame crime-predicting police technology
Garbage in, miscarriage of justice out – especially if you’re poor or Black
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Published in: Home: Opinion‘I was called a national security threat because I organised a protest’
Police banned Sam Knights from the Labour Party conference because of his climate campaign work. He argues we must...
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Published in: Home: NewsCops spend £18m on informants – but won’t say if they targeted BLM groups
Exclusive: Forces said revealing whether anti-racist activists had been paid off could expose the UK to a higher...
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Published in: oDR: NewsMoscow police beat and torture women after anti-war protests
A phone recording captured details of police brutality against Russian anti-war protesters
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Published in: oDR: FeatureThis is what it's like inside Russia's anti-war movement
The suppression last year of Navalny’s activist network destroyed the opposition’s main organising tool. But...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionI covered Stephen Port’s murders. I know Cressida Dick’s departure isn’t enough
I connected the dots on the killings as a local journalist – and was intimidated by police for doing my job
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsExclusive: Hundreds of UK police kept jobs after sickening social media abuses
Sharing porn and a ‘sexualised’ conversation with a teenager among reasons why cops have been disciplined or...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: FeatureUK Traveller communities fear ‘cultural annihilation’ over upcoming trespass laws
Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people face imprisonment or hefty fines under new England and Wales Police Bill that...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionAs a former officer, I'm horrified by England and Wales’s Police Bill
The bill could spell the end of policing by consent – and force police leaders to decide whether to use draconian...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionI survived abuse by a serving police officer, and I know where impunity leads
My stepfather used the closed-ranks culture of the Metropolitan Police as cover to terrorise our family. If that...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionEngland and Wales’s Police Bill threatens anyone with a cause they believe in
It now proposes new crimes that could criminalise almost any protester and give police alarmingly wide powers of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionSarah Everard’s murderer has been sentenced. Now, Cressida Dick must go
Everard’s murder by a police officer exposes the reality of a rotten institution with a culture of misogyny. Before...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: AnalysisKilled in the line of duty: the catastrophic deaths of 14,000 Iraqi officers
How and why are so many police officers being killed in Iraq?
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightThe other epidemic: white supremacists in law enforcement
Law enforcement agencies have been breeding grounds for far-right ideology for decades, and it’s not just an...