Police are encouraging shale gas industry to go to court to disrupt anti-fracking protests

Jun 6, 2018 | Comment, Protest

Yet another interim injunction has been granted to the fracking industry, this time at a hearing in Manchester last week that sought to prohibit a range of disruptive protest tactics at Cuadrilla’s site at Preston New Road in Lancashire. Once again, this...

WATCH: Alex S Vitale on “The End of Policing”

Mar 21, 2018 | Comment

A discussion on “The End of Policing” in London, March 2018 Alex Vitale, Professor of Sociology and coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College in New York, was in London on 15 March to talk about his book “The End of...

“Something has to change” – new Netpol report calls for immediate review of policing of fracking protests

Nov 20, 2017 | Comment, Protest

New report calls for “comprehensive review of national policy” on the policing of opposition to the onshore oil and gas industry Outside shale gas company Cuadrilla’s site on Preston New Road near Blackpool, Netpol is today launching its new report,...

Review: The End of Policing

Sep 18, 2017 | Comment

‘The End of Policing’ by Alex S Vitale, published by Verso, October 2017 During the 2017 UK general election, the Police Federation ran an extremely successful campaign, eventually taken up for different motivations by both the Labour Party’s...

UN human rights report warns against “closing of space for civil society’ in the UK

Jun 14, 2017 | Comment, Protest

In the final stages of this month’s general election, Prime Minister Theresa May attempted to bolster her increasingly fragile position with another attack on human rights laws, a move that was rightly condemned by national and international human rights groups....

Wave of impunity carries Cressida Dick into Commissioner’s job

Feb 23, 2017 | Comment

The word “impunity” – exemption from any possibility of punishment or harm – comes up again and again when bereaved families talk about the death of a loved one at the hands of the police. The family of Jean Charles de Menezes used it again in a statement...