Researching/discussing policing, crime and the criminal justice system. Senior Associate Fellow @policefoundationuk.bsky.social but my own views.
Based in London, UK.
Gavin Hales
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'Policing in Britain has “adopted the language of activism” and official guidance has “over-corrected” to combat accusations of racism, one of the UK’s most senior officers has said.'
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Coverage of our #PDDevaluation in @theguardian.com. Find out more at the National Symposium on Police-led Drug Diversion @sheffielduni.bsky.social this coming Thursday. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Harry Potter shops raided after London Centric investigation…. HMRC officials seize till receipts… ministers treating now central London gift shops as a tax enforcement issue…. www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...
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"The Boulder findings suggest that a substantial portion of apparent disproportionality may reflect denominator bias rather than enforcement bias per se... estimates of racial disparity are highly sensitive to the definition of the comparison population."
I'm suddenly reminded of a train ride in Sri Lanka 20 years ago in a very hot carriage. A group of tourists - I can't now recall if they were French or Italian - decided it was the perfect environment to open some particularly stinky tins of fish for lunch.
Since the question of police institutional racism is being discussed, this observation re the Casey Review of the Met (in the form of a thread) may be of interest.
The London Policing Board is at 1000. The Commissioner's report includes this chart showing that the number of police officers per capita in London is now lower than at any point since at least 1981 - and heading even lower.
Link to all of the papers www.london.gov.uk/moderngovmb/...
It also includes details of the proposed Palantir (Unified Operational Analytics) contract, including an outline of the business case (paras 5 to 15).
Link to the report www.london.gov.uk/moderngovmb/...
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Plus: Is London’s iPhone theft era really coming to an end? • A £9.5m mansion next to Henry VIII's childhood home • Go underground for your phone coverage
I've been re-reading the section of the Casey Review of the Met that addresses over-policing and under-protection and am struck that it says nothing about offending, nor the overlaps between victims and offenders for serious offences such as some forms of violence incl homicide.
right, here's something that makes me feel like I'm still fresh off the Eurostar, 17 years on: why are British people always eating on trains? I've just boarded a train at 3.30pm, by no means a mealtime, and over half of people here are snacking - why? why do trains make you people hungry?
Ethnic disparities in police stops/traffic tickets (🇺🇸) substantially reduced (and for some groups disappeared) when comparing stops/tickets to demographics of people caught by automated red-light cameras rather than comparing to residential population.
www.crimrxiv.com/pub/2zpvatvy...
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Exclusive: Research in England shows people a third less likely to reoffend under decriminalisation-style schemes
