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Prisons are full to bursting – and the UK riots have thrown their usefulness back in the spotlight
Demonstrators in Victoria square in Bolton
Ian Acheson

Prisons are full to bursting – and the UK riots have thrown their usefulness back in the spotlight

Starmer is facing his first big crisis in government after a fortuitous if short three-week honeymoon since his landslide victory, says former prison governor and academic Ian Acheson
Police failings over Sarah Everard's killer shows how we're still failing survivors of sexual offences
Verity Nevitt

Police failings over Sarah Everard's killer shows how we're still failing survivors of sexual offences

Sarah Everard: How many more women will be killed before crimes are taken seriously?
Sarah Everard vigil
Amy Bowdrey

Sarah Everard: How many more women will be killed before crimes are taken seriously?

Key public services are in bad shape across the board, say most Brits – with NHS faring the worst
Public services

Key public services are in bad shape across the board, say most Brits – with NHS faring the worst

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

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Should we break up the Met? We asked experts what comes next after the Casey Review
Met Police, defund the police, break up the met
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Should we break up the Met? We asked experts what comes next after the Casey Review

Police have no place in our schools
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Dr Shabna Begum

Police have no place in our schools

The 'paramilitary' tactics used by police to suppress protest
An arrest during the Poll Tax Riots / protest in London, 31 March 1990. Photo by: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
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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
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Racism

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

Expanded stop and search powers will lead to ‘more criminalisation of Black people’, groups warn
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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 officers standing by stairs.
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
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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
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
Sisters Uncut protesters outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London. Image: Greg Barradale
Activism

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

Police officers admit taking and sharing photos of bodies of murdered sisters
Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry. Image: Met Police
News

Police officers admit taking and sharing photos of bodies of murdered sisters