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[StopWatch UK @StopWatchUK]

October 2026 newsletter: More heat than light
🗞️ Statistics on policing activity in England and Wales suggests that forces are doing more searches and using more force, but the impact on crime levels is yet to be seen... complaints are up though
https://t.co/Ydm1tebJcP

[The Voice Newspaper @TheVoiceNews]

Habib Kadiri, @StopWatchUK executive director, said:

”These figures demonstrate that racial disproportionality is not confined to a single police force or tactic. They demand a serious examination of how police powers are exercised, whose behaviour is treated as threatening, and whether existing accountability mechanisms are capable of addressing entrenched inequalities

[StopWatch UK @StopWatchUK]

👮 Own homework marked.
Rating? superb work lads, keep it up
https://t.co/lzKejCzWNv

[The Voice Newspaper @TheVoiceNews]

Update:

Met review finds “officers’ actions were necessary” after Black autistic man assaulted in viral footage 👇🏾

The footage of a Black autistic man being handcuffed and punched by a Met Police officer went viral online earlier this month

➡️https://t.co/n3FVLPBvzg

By @S_Fleary1

[The Voice Newspaper @TheVoiceNews]

Update:

Met review finds “officers’ actions were necessary” after Black autistic man assaulted in viral footage 👇🏾

The footage of a Black autistic man being handcuffed and punched by a Met Police officer went viral online earlier this month

➡️https://t.co/n3FVLPBvzg

By @S_Fleary1

[The Voice Newspaper @TheVoiceNews]

Chris Kaba family’s fight for answers reaches crucial hearing

A pre-inquest review hearing this week will hear important legal arguments to determine whether an inquest into the killing of Chris Kaba will go ahead 👇🏾

By @S_Fleary1

➡️https://t.co/Wac5orHUjg

[StopWatch UK @StopWatchUK]

September 2026 newsletter: Child-centred policing, an immature concept
🗞️ New research suggests the idea is still in its infancy. But there may be limits to a version of procedural justice unable to deal with persistent racial profiling

https://t.co/Kqu51vdA12

[Liberty @libertyhq]

NEW: @LInvestigates and The Guardian discover British Transport Police’s initial six-month trial of live facial recognition tech in London’s railway stations:

- cost more than £320,000
- took nearly 100 hours of police time
- resulted in no arrests
https://t.co/3y1cbAthD3

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

👁️Oppose facial recognition @MayorofGM

We've brought together leading rights groups and racial justice organisations to tell the Mayor of Manchester to #StopFacialRecognition

This tech is 250 times more likely to misidentify black women than white subjects and it puts all of our rights and liberties at risk.

Read our letter⤵️
https://t.co/ROvgq7v3bF

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

👁️NEWS: Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood calls on police chiefs to use Orwellian facial recognition at protests

"The Home Secretary’s calls for a dystopian constellation of mask bans, facial recognition and ANPR to police lawful expression are a chilling indictment of our right to protest.

No community deserves to live in fear, but a policing response to offensive or controversial views must not dilute rights that we all rely on.

The police must deal with criminal offences robustly, but stripping lawful protestors of their anonymity merely for expressing controversial views is a dark path to go down.

Protestors across the political spectrum, from environmental campaigners and anti-capitalism hacktivists to dissidents in Hong Kong, have used masks to protect their identity against legitimate concerns, including the loss of their job or income, press and media attacks, social ostracisation and unwarranted intelligence gathering by the police.

Allowing the state to restrict protest rights in relation to views we don’t like sets a dangerous precedent for us all when we want to challenge the status quo or speak truth to power."

- Jasleen Chaggar, Senior Legal and Policy Officer

[Tom Fowler @tombfowler]

So far, the #spycops inquiry has only looked at the historic abuses of one undercover unit, the Special Demonstration Squad.

If the heavily implicated Home Office gets it's way, the National Public Order Intelligence Unit won't face the same scrutiny.

https://t.co/zwskSF9GzA

[The Voice Newspaper @TheVoiceNews]

Met launches formal review after police officer recorded assaulting a Black autistic man

The force said it understands concerns over viral footage showing an officer kicking and repeatedly striking the man during an incident in Stratford 👇🏾

By @S_Fleary1

➡️ https://t.co/feZZGv8kJu

[The Voice Newspaper @TheVoiceNews]

It’s time we put police accountability on trial instead of Chris Kaba

Four years after Chris Kaba’s death, unanswered questions over a discontinued misconduct case raise wider concerns about how police officers are held to account says Temi Mwale

https://t.co/ABi7QpiHBb

[BBC London @BBCLondonNews]

Man who died near Notting Hill Carnival is named ➡️ https://t.co/DifOThYqlx

[StopWatch UK @StopWatchUK]

August 2026 newsletter: Police confidence vs public safety
🗞️ ‘Mad’ reaction to exploratory proposals by the Green party to ban police use of Tasers and pepper spray is an exercise in how consent for officers to use force with impunity is manufactured
https://t.co/n4RPHHVyfS

[Sky News @SkyNews]

An honestly held belief of a threat to life is a defence anyone can use in a criminal trial, but since July 2023 it now applies in police gross misconduct hearings.

@JasonFarrellSky speaks to Sir Mark Rowley and campaigners about police accountability.

🔗https://t.co/1hKf4lHSD5

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

#StopFacialRecognition⤵️
https://t.co/9do8SIF81t

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

😱@nottspolice could target children for anti-social behaviour using their intrusive and discriminatory face-scanning tech.

We've brought together leading rights groups to tell the force to #StopFacialRecognition

Live facial recognition puts ALL our rights & freedoms at risk. Adding children - some as young as 11 years old - and subjecting them to biometric ID checks is unacceptable.

Read⤵️
https://t.co/5uyBvtWVkt

[HJA Civil Liberties @HJAcivillibs]

At least six different police forces have recently used artificial intelligence investigation tools provided by Palantir Technologies, while officers from several others appear to have limited access to applications in Palantir’s Nectar system

https://t.co/d9kJUymQkK

[Liberty @libertyhq]

British Transport Police are extending their trial of facial recognition to London tube stations 🚨

The trial has already scanned over half a million people but resulted in ZERO matches and just ONE false flag.

Yet they’re continuing to expand it's use.

https://t.co/IOTIz6sSkc

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

🚨NEWS: The Met Police plan to install PERMANENT facial recognition cameras on #OxfordStreet

"Plans to turn the newly walkable Oxford Street into a permanent digital police line-up using live facial recognition software would be a mistake.

A face scan is as unique as a fingerprint. The police cannot take your fingerprints when you are not suspected of wrongdoing. Taking a faceprint is no less intrusive just because it happens remotely.

The Mayor (@MayorofLondon) should abandon the plans to roll out Orwellian biometric software which would instead place London in the company of authoritarian regimes."

- Jasleen Chaggar, Senior Legal & Senior Policy Officer

Read⤵️
https://t.co/DvV9edKEvT