Shazad Ali and Abdul Musavir went into the city to protect their business as rioters clashed with police but never returnedIn her golden years Rukaya Begum’s home should have been full of the patter of grandchildren’s feet and the hustle of family get-…
Boris Johnson’s crime strategy was another pile of mud | Stewart Lee
The PM’s talk of ‘fluorescent-jacketed chain gangs’ had a similar effect to that of a misfiring new Oxford Street attractionEarlier this week a pile of mud was dumped at the west end of Oxford Street. Then some squares of grass were stuck on the mud. T…
Police review teen killings in search of catalyst for spike in murders
Pilot scheme hopes to discover patterns that will help prevent more deathsMeasures are being introduced to try to identify what is driving rising murder rates in the wake of a spike in teenage deaths in some of the UK’s homicide hotspots.All homicides …
Assaults on police in England and Wales rise above 100 a day during pandemic
Officer morale sinks in the 43 forces as attacks rise by 20% during the Covid crisisA major increase in attacks on police has been recorded during the pandemic, according to official figures revealing that there were more than 100 assaults on officers …
Liverpool fan’s death ruled as 97th of Hillsborough disaster
Liverpool coroner’s court rules Andrew Devine, 55, unlawfully killed by effects of crush 32 years earlierA coroner has ruled that Andrew Devine, 55, who has died 32 years after suffering severe and irreversible brain damage at Hillsborough in 1989, was…
Tory crime strategy will increase risk of major public disorder | Letters
Cllr Mark Blake says an enforcement approach to curb youth violence will fail, while Prof Saville Kushner says stop and search will undermine democratic policing. Plus letters from Mary Jones, TG Ashplant, Susan Ellery, Lynn Beudert and Christopher Rei…
Priti Patel’s ‘support’ for the police is little more than gesture politics | Dal Babu
Rank-and-file officers facing a pay cut in real terms have had enough of empty praise and hollow promisesLast Thursday, the Police Federation passed a vote of no confidence in the home secretary after the announcement that rank-and-file officers in Eng…
Boris Johnson claims stop and search is ‘kind and loving’. He’s gaslighting Black people | Katrina Ffrench
Tough police tactics always backfire. If the prime minister wants to cut knife crime, there are far more effective waysYesterday I was reminded, yet again, that a policy of “fighting crime” can quickly morph into punitive policing and an attack on civi…