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.

Jermaine Baker, from Tottenham, killed during operation to stop plot to spring gang leader from prison in 2015

Bristol Copwatch is a community project and a fiercely independent police monitoring group. We are a small core team of activists and community members who monitor the police locally on the street and across the UK. We believe in building relationships via outreach in local communities in Bristol, we offer workshops and training events and are advocates and case workers for those on the sharp end of abuse of power.

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...

Clip from our founder John’s interview with CoPOWer discussing the origins of Bristol Copwatch and our aims.

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

Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, announced the policy in a speech to the Conservative conference in Manchester this morning.

Met chief: Facial recognition isn't for identifying violent racists, silly! It's just for fun things, like carnivals

A BBC reporter describes secretly filming misogynistic and racist attitudes among serving Metropolitan Police officers.

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.

BBC’s Panorama to broadcast allegations about Charing Cross station after sending evidence to police chiefs

StopWatch's new research project on SVROs aims to turn a spotlight on these new civil orders and their piloting

More than 250 data breaches took place in the past three years

Mother of murdered teenager Stephen says officers who infiltrated political groups should be named at public inquiry

An independent, Bristol-based police monitoring organisation working towards community safety and police accountability.

How can we use transparency mechanisms to make sure the public sector's automated decision-making is fair and lawful?

YouTube video by FairChecks

Following an investigation carried out over the past two years, Statewatch, the Ligue des droits humains and the Liga voor mensenrechten, jointly publish a report on the development of ‘predictive’ policing in Belgium. There are inherent risks in these systems, particularly when they rely on biased databases or sociodemographic statistics. The report calls for a ban on ‘predictive’ systems in law enforcement.

The Ministry of Justice's AI Action Plan promises smarter, faster justice. We question what digital offender IDs, predictive tools and joined-up data mean for people with criminal records.

AI that anticipates where crimes are likely to occur and who might commit them has a troubling track record. Democratic accountability could shine a light on the technology and how it’s used.

In this joint briefing, StopWatch and the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies analyse the impact of Serious Violence Reduction Orders

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.

By John Pegram – founder, public speaker and caseworker Happy Sunday, fellow copwatchers. It’s been a while since we’ve updated our blog, and to be honest, there’s a lot to …

Can you say two-tier policing, Home Secretary? Because it seems that cops response to the Unite The Kingdom march was... odd...