Sean Morrison

Reports

East Bristol’s ‘liveable neighbourhood’: Is this really progress?

The Cable has been collecting data since November on how residents of east Bristol feel about the scheme and how it has impacted them so far. Hundreds of people responded to our call out, and their message is clear…

Marvin Rees receives payment from energy giant he awarded massive contract to

Listen: The Debrief – Filton 18, the Palestine Action activists hit by anti-terror laws amid the British state’s crackdown on dissent

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Cable Community News

Editorial: Why the Cable will be shining a light on child imprisonment

The Cable's investigations lead introduces our new long-term reporting strategy that puts impact at its heart – starting with a deep-dive on child prisons and exclusion from society.

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The Big Story

Filton 18: ‘The more you oppress people, the more they will rise’

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No silver bullet: why we should stop criminalising young people and start investing in them

‘This does not feel like justice’: two young men jailed and one on trial for resisting far-right extremists

Months on from the far-right violence that gripped Bristol in August, police and prosecutors are treating anti-fascist counter-demonstrators the same as people who brought racist disorder to Bristol’s streets.

Listen: The Debrief – what a leaked police report revealed about racial inequalities in stop-and-search

A report leaked to the Cable showed the shocking fact that Black people are 25 times likelier to be strip-searched than white peers. Sean Morrison and Priyanka Raval ask what the findings say about police institutional racism.

Black children and adults strip searched 25 times more often than white peers in Avon and Somerset, leaked report reveals

EXCLUSIVE: The sensitive ‘deep-dive’ review also reveals the police officers who prolifically and disproportionately stop and search Black people in Bristol

It’s not just the far right they’re punishing for the xenophobic, racist, extremist violence on Bristol’s streets

The local news cycle is peppered with brief reports on those jailed for their involvement in the 3 August far-right violent disorder in the city centre. But here’s what’s really going on…

Listen: People Just Do Something, with Habib Kadiri on pernicious police stop-and-search powers

Habib Kadiri, from charity StopWatch, explains why challenging stop-and-search powers matters, what your rights are and how marginalised communities can push back.

Listen: The Debrief – inside the campaign to end suspicionless stop and search

Cable reporter Sean Morrison takes us behind the scenes on his reporting on knife violence, and the No To Section 60 campaign against suspicionless stop and search operations.