No to Section 60

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No to Section 60

Humiliation, trauma and mistrust: why we must scrap Section 60

The founder member of police accountability group Bristol Copwatch explains why the Avon and Somerset force must stop running racist and ineffective suspicionless stop-and-search operations.

John Pegram
John Pegram

No to Section 60

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‘We need to move the dials’: Avon and Somerset Police must show real change on institutional racism

Desmond Brown

No to Section 60

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

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison
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People Just Do Something

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.

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Sean Morrison, Isaac Kneebone-Hopkins and George Colwey

Podcasts

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

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Sean Morrison, Matty Edwards and George Colwey
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No to Section 60

Watch: How Section 60 contributes to rifts between police and the communities they serve

Aphra Evans Alex Turner
Aphra Evans and Alex Turner

No to Section 60

Racist and traumatising: inside a Section 60 suspicionless stop and search operation

Officers searched innocent children, disproportionately targeted people of colour and undermined their anti-racism reforms during a 48-hour police operation in February. Their narrative that it was an effective knife-crime deterrent, done with consent, is misleading.

Sean Morrison
Sean Morrison

No to Section 60

No To Section 60: Letter to local MPs demanding suspicionless search legislation is scrapped

Here's a draft letter to be sent to your local MP demanding that they push for the repeal of Section 60 police stop and search powers

The Bristol Cable
The Bristol Cable