05 October 2020
A report on policing written by young people in Hackney raises "issues around trust, trauma and accountability in local policing, with a number of specific recommendations for local and regional police, as well as the Town Hall."
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‘Deep disconnect in trust’: Youth-led police monitoring group publishes report on stop and search (Hackney Citizen, link):
"Local youth-led police monitoring group Hackney Account today released a new report in the hope of shifting the dial on the debate around stop and search policy.
Account, which has been praised by councillors in the past for the quality and detail of its research, has documented issues around trust, trauma and accountability in local policing, with a number of specific recommendations for local and regional police, as well as the Town Hall.
The report, titled Policing in Hackney: Challenges from Youth in 2020, shows that handcuff usage in Hackney increased by 158 per cent in the last three years, with the borough’s young Black men six times more likely than their white peers to be stopped and searched.
According to Account, Black people are also four times more likely to have force used against them, with stops and searches carried out on young Black men having a much lower ‘hit rate’ than for white people."
Full report available here (Hackney Account, link)
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