Post Tagged with: "Policing"

• Today’s London Links: Law and order

  Some of the stories from around the capital on crime and policing; John Titlow in Read Write Web the is worried about London’s police and mobile privacy. The family of a man who died in police custody plead for answers Evening Standard. The Weekly Worker calls for the end of harassment […]

   

• The unhealthy obsession with front-line policing

  One of the set piece themes of London politics is the obsession with police numbers. The constant wrangling over stats, with its repetitive “I’m best, you’re rubbish” refrain is sterile and unhelpful in so many ways. For one thing voters have no reliable access to the statistics themselves so for most of […]