{"id":1095,"date":"2013-05-31T11:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialscienceslibrarian.wordpress.com\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:50:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:50:55","slug":"stop-and-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2013\/05\/31\/stop-and-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop and Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new report &#8211; a joint project by StopWatch and the Open Society Justice Initiative with the support of the Runnymede trust includes case studies of the harm done to individuals and communities: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stop-watch.org\/experiences\/?utm_source=The+Runnymede+Trust&amp;utm_campaign=962ea60a23-MayUpdate2013&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_07fa1c62ce-962ea60a23-389910036\"><b>Viewed with suspicion the human costs of stop and search<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stop-watch.org\/news-comment\/story\/stop-and-search-damages-the-police\">The StopWatch site<\/a> also has many blog postings of evidence of harm and demands for more responsive policing.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statistics.gov.uk\/hub\/crime-justice\/police\/police-activity\">UK\u00a0Statistics Hub has data on stop and search.\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0The most recent example is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/operation-of-police-powers-under-the-terrorism-act-2000-and-subsequent-legislation-quarterly-update-to-september-2012--2\">April 2013<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/code-of-practice-for-the-exercise-of-stop-and-search-powers\">Codes of Practice <\/a>for the exercise of stop and search powers.<br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/content.met.police.uk\/Site\/stopandsearch\">Metropolitan Police service policy and news service<\/a>\u00a0covers\u00a0The Met&#8217;s\u00a0approach in London<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalityhumanrights.com\/key-projects\/race-in-britain\/stop-and-think\/\">In 2010 the Equality and human rights commission published a report <\/a>asking for police to stop and think.<br \/>\nOther think tanks considering the issue include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>T<a href=\"http:\/\/www.police-foundation.org.uk\/publications\/briefings\/stop-and-search\">he Police Foundation<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/youngfoundation.org\/publications\/lets-talk-about-stop-and-search\/\">Young Foundation<\/a>\u00a0 published a report in March about young people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopandsearch.org\/\">Stop and search uk app: <\/a>a mobile phone app to help those stopped report their experiences &#8211; has the backing of senior police officers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopandtalk.co.uk\/\">Stop and Talk: a\u00a0Hackney report produced by young residents. <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/stopandsearchgroup.co.uk\/\">Stop and Search Haringey Monitoring Group. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report &#8211; a joint project by StopWatch and the Open Society Justice Initiative with the support of the Runnymede trust includes case studies of the harm done to individuals and communities: Viewed with suspicion the human costs of stop and search The StopWatch site also has many blog postings of evidence of harm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[234,243],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminology","category-sociology","tag-criminology","tag-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5769,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions\/5769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}