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Banner Home Page Edition 22 Opinion
Cops need to come clean on predictive policing of 250,000 people
Avon & Somerset Police are using algorithms to predict how likely someone is to commit a crime. A logical next step for policing or an invitation for discrimination?
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Local policing has been slashed and violent crime is up. Who will claim the mantle of ‘law and order’?
Avon and Somerset Police has had 19% of its police officers cut since the Conservatives came to power in 2010
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Banner Home Page Edition 16 Investigations
Investigation: Bristol’s invisible sex trade
The police are struggling to deal with sexual exploitation happening online. How does this off-street sex trade operate in this city?
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Exclusive: Former coppers, including undercover, exposed in police data blunder
While police are fighting to protect the identities of officers during the ‘spycops’ public inquiry into undercover policing, an Avon and Somerset Police Facebook group has exposed the identities of former officers, including covert police.
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Opinion: Unconscious bias training won’t end police institutional racism
When it comes to police racism, is it the case of a few rotten apples or do we need a new barrel altogether? Sam Kidel...
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Policewoman who Tasered Ras Judah found not guilty of assault
But PC Claire Boddie faces disciplinary action
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PC Claire Boddie on trial for tasering Ras Judah: the story so far
The police officer who tasered Easton man Ras Judah will appear in Salisbury Magistrates Court tomorrow (18 May) charged with common assault.
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Opinion: Surveillance Britain, nothing to fear? Think again
We need to act fast to defend our civil liberties or, like the frog in the pot, we could too late find ourselves in a very different climate.
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Banner Home Page Investigations Edition 13
Campaign: stopping IMSI-catcher surveillance
The Cable is launching a national campaign calling for police to come clean on IMSI-catchers, and to ban this intrusive technology.
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Banner Home Page Edition 11 Ideas And Action
Discontent, despair and anger: responses to the Tasering of Ras Judah Adunbi
Desmond Brown encountered strong feelings when he asked local people to respond to the Tasering of Ras Judah, a 63-year-old black race relations adviser in Easton.
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Exclusive: Modern Slavery arrests in Bristol
3 people have been arrested for Modern Slavery offences
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Feminist library occupiers defiant after police visit
Domestic violence campaigners occupying the now-closed Cheltenham Road Library, are determined to stay put after a visit from the police and other unidentified individuals - one of whom made threats.