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Robocop policing: A warning about future riots

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Samira Ahmed

The  former Deputy Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Brian Paddick gave me an interview for The World This Weekend on Radio 4 in which he issued a warning about a fundamental breakdown in the police’s social contract with the … Continue reading →

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How To Loot It — Who’s defining the riots?

Posted on August 13, 2011 by Samira Ahmed

UPDATE: Monday August 15th How interesting that the Prime Minister has today come out with a nation healing speech which concludes with a reference to bankers’ bonuses, MPs’ expenses and an insistence that “There is no them and us. Only … Continue reading →

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