Police drugs crackdown operations can do more harm than good – I’ve seen it
OPEN 20th August 2019
ANALYSIS: New Home Secretary Priti Patel has promised a hardline approach to policing, with criminals feeling "terror". But do such approaches have the desired effect? Dr Will Mason of the University of Sheffield shows how one drugs crackdown in a northern city was seen by local residents as damaging trust and exacerbating the community's problems.