Bristol Copwatch
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Bristol Copwatch is an independent grassroots police monitoring group fighting back against police brutality, misconduct, and abuse of power. We began in 2020. You can donate to our work below! Donations keep us sustainable and let us plan ahead! #WeCopWatch

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The problem for us really is two-fold. Firstly, as shocking as the footage was, it came as no surprise to anyone. This kind of policing appears across the board, and that's the second problem. How many other forces have the same issues? #WeCopWatch
Met chief says he will not resign over ‘vile’ BBC footage of toxic police culture
Mark Rowley says Met is dealing with misogynist and racist officers who undermine force and ‘want him out’
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Our next event is at the #ECC on November 6th! We are joined by #KenHinds, #StopWatch, and #LibertyInvestigates to shine a light on #PredictivePolicing, #StopAndSearch, and how communities can take action! #SaveTheDate and as always, we see you because #WeCopWatch
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BTP in 2023: 'Our priorities around Violence against Women and Girls remain at the top of the agenda' btpa.police.uk/wp-content/u...
BTP in 2025: Officer who used unlawful force on a 15-year-old girl (put her in a headlock) during an arrest found guilty of assault
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Police officer who put girl in headlock found guilty of assault
Adrian Young, of British Transport Police, restrained 15-year-old at a train station in Camden, north London
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In today's world, advanced technologies and algorithms are enhancing policing predictive capabilities and entrenching and amplifying institutional racism and discrimination. #StopAutomatedRacism
Modern policing has always been predictive.
We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.
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We are fundraising for a film to highlight #TFE, a #PredictivePolicing operation targeting vulnerable #KidsOfColour in schools. Police and profiling systems have no place in education. Surveillance isn't safeguarding. #EndThinkSurveillance 🎬
Surveillance is not safe guarding
Think Family Education (TFE)  is an app that has been in use in schools for several years, in fact The Bristol Cable first reported on TFE in 2021.  The app is connected to a council and police database.
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Our next community meeting is on November 11, 2025, at the ECC. We’ll discuss #PredictivePolicing and #StopAndSearch, featuring #KenHinds, #StopWatch, and special guests. Remember, police have no place in schools. #SupportTheFilm

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Surveillance is not safe guarding
Think Family Education (TFE)  is an app that has been in use in schools for several years, in fact The Bristol Cable first reported on TFE in 2021.  The app is connected to a council and police database.
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Copwatch founder and member John speaking in Oxford in winter 2022. As part of the "Know Your Rights and Copwatching" workshop, he provides an introduction to Copwatching and explains how filming the police can help hold them accountable. #WeCopWatch #Copwatchers
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Copwatch founder and member John speaking in Oxford in winter 2022. As part of the know your rights and copwatching workshop, here he gives an introduction to copwatching and how filming the police can help hold them to account. Subtitles to be added
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We're creating a film to highlight Think Family Education and police surveillance in schools. We need your support—police and their surveillance have no place in education. Please share and donate! 🎥🙏 #EndThinkSurveillance
Surveillance is not safe guarding
Think Family Education (TFE)  is an app that has been in use in schools for several years, in fact The Bristol Cable first reported on TFE in 2021.  The app is connected to a council and police database.
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Jermaine Baker, 28, was fatally shot by an officer known only as W80, a Metropolitan police officer, in Wood Green on 11 December 2015. He was unarmed.

Now a police misconduct hearing has heard that the firearms officer used excessive force.
Firearms officer used excessive force in fatal shooting of unarmed man in London, misconduct hearing told
Jermaine Baker, from Tottenham, killed during operation to stop plot to spring gang leader from prison in 2015
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We are fundraising for a film to highlight #TFE, a #PredictivePolicing operation targeting vulnerable #KidsOfColour in schools. Police and profiling systems have no place in education. Surveillance isn't safeguarding. #EndThinkSurveillance 🎬
Surveillance is not safe guarding
Think Family Education (TFE)  is an app that has been in use in schools for several years, in fact The Bristol Cable first reported on TFE in 2021.  The app is connected to a council and police databa...
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Here's a clip from John’s interview with #CoPOWer a few years back discussing the origins of Bristol Copwatch and our aims. We are updating our constitution when our new website is ready! #WeCopWatch #CoPOWeR
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An introduction to Bristol Copwatch
Clip from our founder John’s interview with CoPOWer discussing the origins of Bristol Copwatch and our aims.
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Habib Kadiri, executive director of StopWatch, discusses the significance of stop-and-search and how communities can push back. #WeCopWatch
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The Metropolitan Police have always been a racist and corrupt organisation. Claims to have changed are not made from a place of truth. The issue is systemic. No piecemeal reform can fix it. The problem is policing itself. #WeCopWatch
Why the BBC went undercover in the Met Police to investigate claims of racism and misogyny
A BBC reporter describes secretly filming misogynistic and racist attitudes among serving Metropolitan Police officers.
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Secret recordings by Panorama expose instances of racism, misogyny, and officers taking pleasure in using force at Charing Cross, one of London's busiest police stations. They can never catch enough coppers. #NotOneRogueCop #WeCopWatch
Panorama - Undercover in the Police
Secret filming by Panorama reveals evidence of racism, misogyny and officers revelling in the use of force at one of London’s busiest police stations, Charing Cross.
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We previously highlighted that police data protection breaches can affect our lives and cause trauma. It's no surprise that #ASP has a high number of breaches, with some being an abuse of power. #WeCopWatch
Huge number of data breaches at Avon and Somerset Police revealed
More than 250 data breaches took place in the past three years
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As Doreen Lawrence said of the #spycops: “They were doing the deception. Why should they be allowed to be anonymous while people like me had their faces all over the newspapers? These people were not innocent. They knew what they were doing.”

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Doreen Lawrence calls for undercover police who spied on family to be named
Mother of murdered teenager Stephen says officers who infiltrated political groups should be named at public inquiry
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