No to Section 60

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No to Section 60

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

The police have been gaslighting us for generations – and officers’ use of intrusive stop-and-search powers is still blighting Bristol’s young Black boys, a local racial justice advocate argues.

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

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

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

Youth workers, community leaders and the founder of a police monitoring group explain the damaging and traumatising impact of controversial 'suspicionless' search powers in Bristol.

No to Section 60

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

No to Section 60

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