Nadeem Saddique became the victim of racial discrimination and vicitmisation on 25 occasions on the grounds of his Pakistani origin and his Muslim religion
“Although rates of drug use and selling are comparable across racial lines, people of color are far more likely to be stopped, searched, arrested, prosecuted, convicted and incarcerated for drug law violations than are whites.” Drug Policy Alliance website An intriguing quote by a former aide to disgraced US President Richard Nixon is making headlines.…
Regulating cannabis could earn the government £1bn in taxes a year, a new report established by Lib Dem health spokesperson Norman Lamb says. Really?
Alex Thomson
“You’d have vans coming and going at all hours,” says one elderly neighbour, looking out at the manor of Brians Reader – Senior and Junior – now cordoned by blue and white police tape.
Kylie Morris
Last year in the US a record number of prisoners were released after they were found to have been wrongfully convicted. Among them was Ricky Jackson, who wrongly spent 39 years in prison.
Have we really lost the equivalent of nine police forces since 2010? And can crime really be falling at the same time? FactCheck investigates
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Anti-police protests continue across America after the Michael Brown killing. But does the black community have tough questions to answer too?
Ferguson was ablaze last night after it emerged that a policeman who shot dead a black teenager will not be charged. Is Michael Brown’s killing an isolated case?
An inquiry finds nearly one in five crimes in England and Wales goes unrecorded every year – and nearly 200 rape offences were dropped between November 2012 and October 2013.
Week after week there seems to be yet another damning report on the state of this country’s prisons. Today it is the Serco privately run Doncaster Prison.
Jon Snow
I have already described how I was abused as a child – but my abuser did not haunt me because, unlike Jimmy Savile and Rolf Harris, he was not constantly in the public eye.
Jon Snow
By chance in New York over the weekend, I happened upon the continuation of a modern phenomenon. The internet is coming back to earth.
Damian Green, the policing minister, says that fewer prisoners are now absconding from open jails. In the light of the “skull cracker” case, is he right to make his claim?