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Published in: openSecurityPredictive policing: mapping the future of policing?
New predictive policing technologies seem to promise crime reduction. But predictive policing also threatens the...
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Published in: openSecurityTiananmen at 25: the fate of mass demonstration in China
China's growing economic prosperity has distinguished today's youth – and their demands – from the "89 generation"....
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Published in: openSecurityBuilding the blacklist: police spies and trade unionists
In 2009 a UK construction industry blacklist, administered by a private company holding files on thousands of...
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Published in: openSecurityThe creation of a border security state
Americans may increasingly wonder whether NSA agents are scouring their meta-data, reading their personal emails,...
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Published in: openSecurityIndia’s policing disorder
In the 1990s Mumbai's 'crime-busting' policing strategy included routine extra-judicial executions, known as...
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Published in: openSecurityPolicing academia: exporting 'expertise', importing marketisation
Manchester Metropolitan University is working with the Qatari government to train Qatari police officers. What does...
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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: openSecurityBarton Moss: policing in the absence of democracy
Violence has been a running theme within the policing of anti-fracking protests at Barton Moss. Individual officers...
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Published in: openSecurityCommunity policing or counter-terrorism: What was Britain doing in Sri Lanka?
Why were the British delivering a 'community policing' program during and after Sri Lanka's 2009 civil war? And why...
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Published in: openSecurityRacism: troubling truths
Fighting racism in Europe is not easy when Europe has two hands tied behind its back—debilitated by neo-liberal...
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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: openSecurityPolicing public sexuality: queerness, intimacy, protection and violence
Excluded from police protection, subjected to intimate scrutiny of one's public sexuality, and regularly victim of...
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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: openSecurityThe violence of denial
Twenty-one years since the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence in South London, the criminal justice system maintains...
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Published in: HomeThe thin blue line between security, policing and the arms trade
On March 12-14 the quiet English town of Farnborough will play host to the Security & Policing conference and...
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Published in: openSecurityBeyond Yasukuni: Japan's march towards militarism
From constitutional revisions to education reform, the Japanese government is intent on undoing the country's...
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Published in: openSecurityWhite-washing the water cannon: salesmen, scientific experts and human rights abuses
Scrubbing away the white-wash of 'less lethal' riot control reveals a history littered with humanitarian disasters,...
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Published in: openSecurityIn search of security: "as transgenders we don't count at all"
Film: An organiser for transgender rights from The Humsafar Trust discusses insecurity and everyday experiences of...
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Published in: openSecurityExtending a hand or raising a fist to the state?
From mobile phones to crowdsourced election monitoring, an in-depth look at how communication technologies are...
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Published in: openSecurityViolence visited on Cambodian garment workers
Cambodian garment workers make around $80 a month, taking on long hours of overtime in harsh conditions. Now workers...