Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 115679 total results. Showing results 33361 to 33380 «166516661667166816691670167116721673Next ›Last » Citizen empowerment as a police force multiplier: Reproducing social domination through a 21st century personal safety app Citizen is a digital mapping platform and personal safety app that boasts over 10 million users in the United States. Through the platform, users can report crimes, map safe routes, or rely on the app’s other functions to protect themselves from dangerous situations. Sold on a promise of empowerment, Citizen markets itself as a 21st century technology capable of repairing the ills of our social world. In this article we analyze how Citizen taps into the desire for control and safety and urges its users to actively protect their own communities. As such, we suggest that while surveillant in nature, Citizen revolves around the force inherent to police power, transforming its users via police power by first integrating them into their social platform. Ultimately, Citizen reminds us that police power is not limited to ideological or violent exchanges, but can be a compelling solution to community problems. Rather than a progressive fix to the issues between policing and communities, however, we find that Citizen offers an expansion of police power at the individual scale, reproducing social domination both at the level of capital and the state. Crime Media Culture: An International Journal 10/2/2024 Research article Garda Armed Support Unit swoop to arrest knife wielding man REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Gardaí have charged a man in connection with an incident in which a male was observed behaving erratically with a knife in Limerick on Friday. Irish Mirror (Republic of Ireland) 10/2/2024 News Herefordshire ex-PC guilty of gross misconduct over money ‘lies’ A GROSS misconduct hearing has found that a former West Mercia Police officer would have been dismissed from the force had he not already resigned. The hearing upheld allegations that the conduct of former PC Richard Davis, 53, who was based in Hereford, breached the Standards of Professional Behaviour as set out in the Police (Conduct) Regulations 2020. The Ross Gazette 10/2/2024 News It really is Britain’s largest force! Met Police chiefs order trousers in sizes up to XXXXXXL among thousands of pairs with a waist of 40 inches or more London's Metropolitan Police ordered thousands of trousers with plus size waistlines last year, with one officer requiring a pair with an XXXXXXL waist. The revelations, which came from a Freedom of Information request, suggested the Met is the UK's largest police force in more ways than one. The figures shoed one male officer had a pair of trousers ordered with a whopping 62 inches waist while the largest trousers ordered for a female officer were a size 44. Mail Online 10/2/2024 News Judge or jury? The justice secretary’s plan for rape trials should at least be put to the test It will be 40 years next year since rape shield laws were first introduced in Scotland. They were supposed to make the court experience of complainers marginally less awful by preventing dogged defence lawyers from asking intrusive – and totally irrelevant – questions about their sexual pasts. Holyrood Magazine 9/2/2024 Feature, Opinion Met Police chief ‘not man enough’ to talk about institutional racism The head of the Metropolitan Police is not “man enough” to accept that the force is institutionally racist, Baroness Casey of Blackstock has said, a year after her devastating report. Casey said it was stupid for Sir Mark Rowley, the force’s commissioner, not to agree with the finding she made in her review last March that its problems were “institutional”. She said Rowley had “run behind the skirts of Suella Braverman”, the former home secretary, when he claimed that the word was politicised and ambiguous. The Times - Subscription at source 9/2/2024 News Former IOPC Regional Director: ‘I don’t believe the Met is structured for success’ The former Regional Director for London at the IOPC spoke on the Police Foundation’s Friday Exchange Event. The way the Met is structured with large national functions “doesn’t really make sense”, the former IOPC Regional Director for London has said. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 9/2/2024 News Investigation underway into police actions prior to fatal M25 collision We are investigating the involvement of Hertfordshire Constabulary officers prior to a fatal road traffic collision on the M25 where two people died, on Sunday 4 February. Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) 9/2/2024 News Review of Co Wexford’s garda resources is needed REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Senator Malcolm Byrne has expressed concern at a dip in the number of Gardaí on the beat in County Wexford and the need for Garda numbers to keep pace with the growing population. Irish Independent (Republic of Ireland) 9/2/2024 News London, Ont., police chief’s apology a good step but missing key elements: experts CANADA: A southwestern Ontario police chief’s apology this week for the time it took to lay sexual assault charges against five professional hockey players marked an important step in acknowledging harm but lacked key elements needed to demonstrate full accountability and rebuild trust, experts say. Blue Line (Canada) 9/2/2024 News Mechanical issues within shared RPU leading to ‘prioritisation of service’ A spokesperson for the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire RPU has acknowledged the issues but says 'all strategic Road Policing matters are being responded to'. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 9/2/2024 News More than 1,600 arrests made by Undercover Online network Undercover officers pursue perpetrators of online sexual offences. The NPCC Undercover Online network carried out 1,665 arrests between October 2022 and September 2023. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 9/2/2024 News Transfer of PCC powers to proceed in West Midlands despite dividing opinion Half of those who responded to the consultation disagreed with the move, with 46% in favour and the remainder unsure. Plans to transfer policing powers in the West Midlands to the region’s Mayor have divided public opinion, according to a consultation which revealed an almost even split between those in favour and opposition. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 9/2/2024 News Inside the dark web, where abuse abounds and criminals deal in plain sight Weapons, hackers for hire and child abuse imagery abound in the murky corner of the internet exploited by Brianna Ghey’s killer The Times - Subscription at source 9/2/2024 Feature When police pull back: Neighborhood-level effects of de-policing on violent and property crime, a research note Many U.S. cities witnessed both de-policing and increased crime in 2020, yet whether the former contributed to the latter remains unclear. Indeed, much of what is known about the effects of proactive policing on crime comes from studies that evaluated highly focused interventions atypical of day-to-day policing, used cities as the unit of analysis, or could not rule out endogeneity. This study addresses each of these issues, thereby advancing the evidence base concerning the effects of policing on crime. Leveraging two exogenous shocks presented by the onset of the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and social unrest after the murder of George Floyd, we evaluated the effects of sudden and sustained reductions in high-discretion policing on crime at the neighborhood level in Denver, Colorado. Multilevel models accounting for trends in prior police activity, neighborhood structure, seasonality, and population mobility revealed mixed results. On the one hand, large-scale reductions in stops and drug-related arrests were associated with significant increases in violent and property crimes, respectively. On the other hand, fewer disorder arrests did not affect crime. These results were not universal across neighborhoods. We discuss the implications of these findings in light of debates concerning the appropriate role of policing in the 21st century. Criminology 9/2/2024 Research article Northumbria Police chief announces major changes to policing to ensure ‘outstanding service’ for communities The force is going to double its number of area commands from three to six and will each have a dedicated team Chronicle Live (North East) 9/2/2024 News Northern Ireland’s First Minister Michelle O’Neill attends police graduation in first for Sinn Fein The party has previously been cool in its support of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), which was established after the Good Friday Agreement. Sky News 9/2/2024 News Family of James Wood, who died after police encounter, calls out systemic racism and brutality CANADA: The family of James Wood is calling for his death to be a catalyst for change in the Winnipeg Police Service "so that, as Indigenous people, when we're calling on services or supports, we don't die." "We implore society to recognize the need for police reform to address the systemic biases and excessive use of force that [disproportionately] affect marginalized communities," Wood's dad, Brian, said speaking publicly for the first time at a news conference on Friday, standing next to his wife, Carol. CBC News (Canada) 9/2/2024 News Aussie cops in hiding after undercover blunder AUSTRALIA: A group of former undercover cops are now in hiding and demanding a parliamentary inquiry into the AFP who they say broke all golden rules of undercover work. The Daily Telegraph (Australia) - Subscription at source 9/2/2024 News Cook Government is seriously considering a domestic violence disclosure scheme for WA women AUSTRALIA: The Cook Government is “seriously considering” implementing a domestic violence disclosure scheme that could allow WA women to seek information about whether their partner has an abusive past. Domestic violence disclosure schemes - which already exist in the UK and South Australia - typically give people the ability to request information from police about their current or former partner’s potential history of violence or abuse. The West Australian (Australia) - Subscription at source 9/2/2024 News «166516661667166816691670167116721673Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
