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Published in: openDemocracyUKMy evening with the London Met Police CommissionerAn activist, with her own vivid personal experiences of London policing, meets the man in charge: Bernard...
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Published in: HomeThe History of Police Militarization in the US
On Monday, November 28, 2011, students at UC-Davis occupied Dutton Hall, the University's financial center, and held...
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Published in: Shine A Light'Fuck the police!' Working-class youth and the routine abuse of power
For many, the 'boys in blue' are a brutal force who use their powers to punish and wreak revenge. England's riots...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK"The Game is Up": Unrest, Policing and the War on the Underclass
Ten years after 9/11, the 'War on Terror' in Britain is being replaced by a 'War on the Underclass' as exceptional...
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Published in: Shine A LightSandwiches, Red Bull and Public Support: police officers talk about England's riotsA fortnight after a peaceful protest against the shooting dead of Mark Duggan sparked four days of rioting across...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK'Police prevarication sparked the UK's Tottenham riots'
After the police shot a man dead in London last week, they showed disregard for the feelings of his family, which...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKPolitical policing in Britain ahead of the Big Day
If anyone was in any doubt that we have a highly politicized, out-of-control police force in the UK with scant...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKReporting a riot in Britain: how the police spun the battle of Stokes CroftMedia coverage of unrest in the south west of England on Friday was littered with inaccuracies. The lackluster...
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Published in: oDRA moral interlude: Russian police suspend corruptionA strange thing is happening in Russia: the police have stopped taking bribes. It is all down to President...
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Published in: oDRMedvedev’s Law on Police: a quiet revolution?A much-trumpeted Law on the Police comes into force in Russia today. Mark Galeotti considers whether it represents a...
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Published in: HomeNo real freedom without dismantling the secret political police
In Egypt, police officers are needed back on the streets, protecting civilians from thugs: not the SSI back in full...
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Published in: HomeCivil Society in 1989 and 2011
What is happening in Tunisia and Egypt is the completion of the 1989 revolutions. Giving back to us the meaning of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFight Back! A Reader on the Winter of Protest
Read 'Fight Back! A reader on the winter of protest' here, and get all the latest information. The book is FREE to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKUK police undercover: a dangerous subplot
What the police infiltration of legitimate activist groups also reveals is a far more disturbing global phenomenon:...
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Published in: HomeThis week's theme: Human Security in practice
Mary Kaldor’s latest book is The Ultimate Weapon is No Weapon: Human Security and the New Rules of War and Peace...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKKettling - an attack on the right to protestThe British police have developed a controlling method of containing demonstrators in addition to their usual...
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Published in: HomeDocuments at odds: the UK’s national security review
The narrative of the Cold War imposed a simplified vision of the world. The UK’s defence review does move towards an...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFrom Helmand to Merseyside: Unmanned drones and the militarisation of UK policing
Serious questions must be asked about the use of military-style unmanned drones, pioneered in the war in...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWe don't live in a police state, but we are going to be watched by aerial drones
Extraordinary plans by police in the UK to use unmanned spy drones to monitor antisocial motorists, protesters,...
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