StopWatch UK newsletter

February 2026: Just as much carrot as stick

Government takes measured stance on youth violence prevention; police chiefs admit racial bias in AI-enabled surveillance tech... press on with adoption…

Feb 28

January 2026

January 2026: New year, new reforms?

Will the proposed shakeup of the current policing model raise standards of accountability and transparency within the institution? Will it make the…

Jan 31

December 2025

November 2025

November 2025: Abolition is possible... for PCCs

Role introduced to bring greater democratic accountability to policing ditched, while a tragic violent incident brings yet more talk of ramping up stop…

Nov 30, 2025

October 2025

October 2025: Haunted by the ghosts of racists past

Police ramp up racism for Black History Month, also get the green light to change the record on leniency granted for killing civilians

Oct 31, 2025

September 2025

September 2025: Riots, race, and contradictions

Met chief: Facial recognition isn't for identifying violent racists, silly! It's just for fun things, like carnivals

Sep 30, 2025

August 2025

July 2025

July 2025: What does crime smell like?

Police chiefs claim the smell of cannabis makes THEM feel unsafe... even more so than those who have been abused by their officers

Jul 31, 2025

June 2025

June 2025: Child-centred police abuse

Is the outcome of the misconduct hearing over Child Q a watershed moment in policing, or yet another false dawn?

Jun 29, 2025

May 2025

May 2025: Dismissing gross misconduct

New rules see gross misconduct treated as grounds for straight dismissal, 'unless there are exceptional circumstances'. What does that mean?

May 31, 2025

April 2025

March 2025

March 2025: Doing violence to data

Police chiefs and politicians fall for new research that suits their claims about stop and search's effectiveness, while a hospital's knife bin amnesty…

Mar 31, 2025