StopWatch

📣 Our November 2025 newsletter is now live!

This month we analyse the annual stop and search and use of force statistics, discuss the abolition of Police and Crime Commissioners, and monitor the calls for more stop and search in the wake of the tragic Huntingdon train stabbing.

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Today the Met released Dr Shereen Daniels' report into systemic racism that it tried so hard to bury.

The findings make it clear why the Met wanted to keep it hidden: Dr Daniels is scathing in her assessment of the deliberate entrenchment of racism within the institution.

The decision by the Met to try to keep the report under wraps, and Mark Rowley's half-hearted response display exactly the systemic issues highlighted in the report.

We will wait and see how the Met chooses to act on this but, based on the decades of reports and inquiries before this, we have very little faith there will be any meaningful change.

📢 Our October 2025 newsletter is now live.

It's a bumper edition this month due to a flood of news centred on police racism, both within and outside the institution.

This month we saw:

✅️ Panorama exposing yet more racism at Charing Cross station (yes, that Charing Cross)
✅️ the devastating recommendations from the police accountability review
✅️ the collapse of the misconduct case against W80
✅️ the frustrating conclusion to the misconduct case against the Croydon bus stop officer
✅️ analysis showing Black Londoners are nearly three times more likely to be strip searched than white Londoners
..and a LOT more

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