A trial would not be fair if a jury’s decision about a defendant’s guilt or innocence was influenced by material they saw online.
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A third of police forces across England and Wales are judged by the inspectorate as “inadequate” or “requiring improvement”.
Police Minister Sarah Jones said the current guidance gives the ‘wrong impression’.
Even after accounting for other factors, black detainees remained more than twice as likely to be strip-searched as their white counterparts.
This is an opportunity for policing to move away from the ‘warrior culture’ that drives a wedge between police and local communities.
Even crime we think of as ‘local’ can exploit force boundaries.
It’s a common misconception that facial recognition technology captures and stores an image of your face.
Proposed reforms are a missed opportunity to give the public what they want from policing.
Shabana Mahmood says she no longer has confidence in West Midlands police chief constable Craig Guildford.
A recent House of Commons report suggested that the laws of contempt are not fit for the social media age.
The notion that the cameras reduce violence and complaints about police behaviour are not necessarily borne out in practice.
We asked members of the public how to restore trust in police – here’s what their answers revealed.
The past 300 years show us that shoplifting is a crime rooted in complex societal as well as economic issues. But who deserves our sympathy: the robbers or the robbed?
Tasers have become a common tool in UK policing, sparking debates over their safety and effectiveness.
Young people, especially from minority ethnic and LGBTQ+ communities, did not feel like they were heard, taken seriously or treated fairly by the police.
Both major parties have pledged to increase recruitment to England and Wales’s police forces. But more needs to be done to rebuild trust with communities.
The wide-ranging bill deals with police powers, antisocial behaviour, deepfake pornography and much more.
The UK lacks a comprehensive system for recording hateful graffiti and imagery, something which researchers argue must change.
Police are still reeling from a decade of austerity funding cuts.
The police presence needed to ensure free expression costs taxpayers money.
Top contributors
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Visiting Professor in Solution Oriented Policing, De Montfort University; Loughborough University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of South Wales
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Professor of Criminology & Public Policy, University of Brighton
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Associate Professor in Law, University of Canterbury
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Visiting Research Fellow, School of Law, University of Leeds
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Senior Lecturer in Police Studies, University of Portsmouth
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Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Bristol
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Assistant Professor, Durham University
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Chair of the Policing Institute for the Eastern Region, Anglia Ruskin University
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Senior Lecturer in Policing, Liverpool John Moores University
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Professor of Criminology and Head of Department for Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Southampton
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Manchester
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Senior Lecturer in Law, Leeds Beckett University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Coventry University
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Professor of Sociology of Law and Deviance, Università di Bologna; University of Essex; The University of Melbourne