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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...
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Published in: openSecurityDoreen Lawrence, police spies and institutional racism
Allegations of police spying on anti-racism groups shed new light on the meaning and operation of 'institutional...
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Published in: openSecurityLocal surveillance since 2001
The almost exclusive focus on the NSA obscures the degree to which surveillance has become integrated into almost...
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Published in: openSecurity"There is Marikana everyday in South Africa" - an interview with Abahlali baseMjondolo
Film: Struggling for the right to decent housing and against the criminalisation of poverty, South African shack...
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Published in: openSecurityThe over-policing of America
The purview of the US criminal justice system appears to be widening: from school child 'bad behaviour' to a...
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Published in: openSecurityThe numbers in black and white: racism in the policing of drugs
Each year the UK police are disproportionately stopping and searching large numbers of Black and Asian people for...
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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...