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No more good cop, bad cop: Revisiting Serpico and Training Day in the wake of global calls to abolish the police
Review

No more good cop, bad cop: Revisiting Serpico and Training Day in the wake of global calls to abolish the police

Classic police corruption dramas Serpico and Training Day are back in cinemas. It’s the first time they’ve been on the big screen since George Floyd’s death forced a reckoning with institutional racism. What can they tell us?

Should we break up the Met? We asked experts what comes next after the Casey Review
police reform

Should we break up the Met? We asked experts what comes next after the Casey Review

The Casey Review raised the idea of breaking up the Met Police. Should we defund the police? Here’s what experts think

Police have no place in our schools
Dr Shabna Begum

Police have no place in our schools

Black and minority ethnic pupils are being overpoliced and underprotected in schools, race equality think tank Runnymede Trust has warned

The ‘paramilitary’ tactics used by police to suppress protest
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The ‘paramilitary’ tactics used by police to suppress protest

Police anti-racism plan can’t work if stop and search powers are increased, campaigners say
Racism

Police anti-racism plan can’t work if stop and search powers are increased, campaigners say

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Expanded stop and search powers will lead to ‘more criminalisation of Black people’, groups warn
Stop and Search

Expanded stop and search powers will lead to ‘more criminalisation of Black people’, groups warn

Diane Abbott demands meeting with Hackney police after Black schoolgirl strip-searched
Child Q

Diane Abbott demands meeting with Hackney police after Black schoolgirl strip-searched

Sexist, racist and homophobic behaviour within Met Police laid bare in new report
Met Police

Sexist, racist and homophobic behaviour within Met Police laid bare in new report

The Met Police is being sued for not investigating a Downing Street Christmas party
Partygate

The Met Police is being sued for not investigating a Downing Street Christmas party

Home Office in U-turn over ‘discriminatory’ plans to give police more stop and search powers
Politics

Home Office in U-turn over ‘discriminatory’ plans to give police more stop and search powers

Women’s groups threaten Priti Patel with legal action over ‘inadequate’ Sarah Everard inquiry
Activism

Women’s groups threaten Priti Patel with legal action over ‘inadequate’ Sarah Everard inquiry

Police warn of groups travelling to London to ’cause violence’ at Million Mask March
Activism

Police warn of groups travelling to London to ’cause violence’ at Million Mask March

Sisters Uncut occupy Royal Courts of Justice to protest police violence against women
Activism

Sisters Uncut occupy Royal Courts of Justice to protest police violence against women