This propaganda, and the idea of having a photographer in the room with you for diplomatic calls, trying to focus on the correct amount of pensive face, instead of doing the job. Is fucking insane. Chilling sign of a rudderless gorp. Also needs more flags.

*NEW REPORT* OUT OF ORDER: The rise of stop and search in civil orders legislation Black ppl get 2/3rds of Knife Crime Prevention Orders, represent only 4% of the population... yet there is still ‘no clear assessment’ of the impact of KCPOs on crime stop-watch.org/what-we-do/res…

'Out of Order', a report I worked on with StopWatch UK on stop and search and the rise of 'civil orders', is finally out in the world! Grateful for the collaborative efforts of StopWatch colleagues and volunteers that made it happen

The rapid expansion of facial recognition by The Met is a big concern. Alongside Westminster, Croydon has had the highest number of facial recognition operations. Mass surveillance isn’t solving the real issues, especially in Croydon where communities are already overpoliced.

‘Children being traumatised at Gatwick deportation centre, finds watchdog’ children being subjected to ‘callous treatment and unnecessary suffering’ Removing children is a desperate act of state brutality. theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/o…

If the sight of human beings burning alive won’t stop the UK government supplying arms to Israel, what will?

If your government is conducting or assisting a genocide, and doing it in the face of overwhelming popular opposition, then you do not live in a democracy. Your ruling class does whatever it wants. This is a core problem and people need to grapple with it.

Sha'ban Al-Dalou,19, as a software engineering freshman, Sep 2023, at Al-Azhar University of Gaza. Israel destroyed his home and his university and immolated him yesterday at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital after forcibly displacing him earlier last year.

Let me chat to you about abolition. A young mother was having issues over the summer with young people riding on motorbikes near her home around her kids bed time. The kids weren’t sleeping / waking her up and it was causing all kinds of stress to her. She rang the police

This is empirically false.

Stop and search power ineffective and should be scrapped, says report (The Times and The Sunday Times) thetimes.com/uk/crime/artic…

'Since 2016, the funding the Met receives from City Hall has doubled, taking it from 19% of the force's total budget to 25%, a mayor's spokesperson said.' So the mayor of London is stepping in to provide an additional £54m from Londoners' pockets... bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

📰 Read Holly Bird quick analysis of the Met's new 'Stop and Search Charter' TLDR? It won't hold the force to account stop-watch.org/news-opinion/r…

📣 While the Met has been telling anyone who'll listen about its stop and search charter, police custody data shows that their officers strip searched MORE THAN TWICE as many Black children (365) as white (154) in custody gov.uk/government/sta…

OPINION: With the spectre of Live Facial Recognition moving north of the border, Holly Bird argues that initiating debate over the issue – or manufacturing consent, some might say – masks existing failures of transparency and accountability stop-watch.org/news-opinion/l…

Respond to Police Scotland's survey here: spa.citizenspace.com/strategy-perfo… Helpful info from Big Brother Watch: bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/blog/action-al…

finally made a bluesky account: bsky.app/profile/holly-… :-)