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Climate Camp’s open letter to the Met

Aug 26, ’09 12:50 PM

Open let­ter from the Camp for Cli­mate Action to Ian Thomas, the Chief Super­in­tend­ent of the Met­ro­pol­itan Police Ser­vice. Worth read­ing in it’s entirety.

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A gender experiment in policing

Aug 22, ’09 8:49 AM

Could be inter­est­ing. Jon Hen­ley for The Guard­ian:

The Met­ro­pol­itan police have announced a new strategy for next week’s Cli­mate Camp – put­ting women officers in charge of the oper­a­tion. Will this avoid the viol­ence seen at the G20 protests?

Per­haps the most noted Amer­ican researcher into gender dif­fer­ences in poli­cing, Joseph Balkin, observed that “police­men tend to see police work as involving con­trol through author­ity, while police­wo­men see it as pub­lic ser­vice”. In some respects at least, he con­cluded, “women are bet­ter suited for police work than men.”

Maybe this strategy should be trans­posed to inter­na­tional politics?

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‘They’ve made us scared to talk’

Aug 6, ’09 9:11 PM

Fam­ily of Ian Tom­lin­son — who died after being hit by police­man at G20 protests—speak out.

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The PR assault begins

Apr 23, ’09 7:36 AM

Doesn’t look like the UK police are going to get a clean up after­all. Instead what appears to be a pro­pa­ganda cam­paign begins, first up: how “aston­ish­ingly” good the G20 police actu­ally were. And all those videos of police run­ing amok, well they were just a few bad eggs, we’ll sort that out don’t worry.

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