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Published in: openSecuritySpain: how a democratic country can silence its citizensSpain, one of the European countries at the sharp end of imposed austerity measures, has also been in the vanguard...
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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: openSecurityIn search of security: "there to keep the peace"Film: Testimony of the violence of a police-led eviction and experience of the policing which comes from racist...
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Published in: openSecurityFrom cops to counterinsurgents: the militarization of America's police
Welcome to a new era of American policing, where cops increasingly see themselves as soldiers occupying enemy territory.
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Published in: openSecurityBlack justice campaigns prepare for new inquiry into undercover policing
It has recently emerged that the UK police have been spying on black justice campaigns for decades. Home Secretary...
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Published in: openSecurityIt's the morality, stupid!
Why do Britons want more policing, prisons and punishment? The political left need to incorporate morality into...
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Published in: openSecurityLosing PrideLondon's Gay Pride includes the Metropolitan Police marching in full uniform. Visibility as proud LGBTQ police...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEgypt’s police: a department of thugsIronically, the protest which was peaceful and demanded freedom for political detainees and an end to the "protest...
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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: openSecurityBuilding the blacklist: police spies and trade unionistsIn 2009 a UK construction industry blacklist, administered by a private company holding files on thousands of...
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Published in: TransformationI was arrested 75 times: how violent policing destroys mental healthPolice harassment drove me into hospital. Why aren't we questioning their tactics? This is the final article in...
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Published in: 50.50Muslim women and the Met: Only a pawn in their gameThe attempt by British police to get Muslim women to inform on their friends and relatives as part of a...
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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 democracyViolence 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: 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...
