BY CHRIS HOBBS
The contents of the recent Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) into the Metropolitan Police’s tactic of stop and search were as predictable as night following day.
When the IOPC announced it would be mounting some sort of review into stop and search, I naively thought it would at least be a structured investigation which would be looking closely at all the issues namely; police powers, the current level of violence on London’s streets, gang related violence and rivalries, drill music and youth culture, drugs crime, stop and search statistics and successes with weapons taken off the streets, positive interaction with charities and organisations, media hostility towards police, the agendas of political and quasi political organisations, the risk posed to police, the effect of cutbacks, positivity in police responses-justice for victim’s families, lives saved via first aid and metal health intervention, in addition to deaths, the physical damage to victims resulting from knife crime such as evisceration.
- CHRIS HOBBS
- Intelligence and Policing
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