Calpurnia’s Dream: the Menace of Mob Lynching in India
The repeated reported incidents of mob lynching in India represent a growing negation of fundamental right to life and liberty encapsulated in Article 21 of the Indian Constitution. This is...
Policing
‘We have found institutional racism, misogyny and homophobia in the Met’: Baroness Casey Review
A few days ago, the final report of an independent review into the standards of behaviour and internal culture of the Metropolitan Police Service (Met) was published. The review was...
Examining Racial-Profiling Complaints in the Age of Subsidiarity: Basu v Germany and Muhammad v Spain
Image Description: Two policemen in uniform standing with their backs to the camera. On 18 October 2022, the European Court of Human Rights (‘ECtHR’)’s Third Section passed judgment in Basu...
The Inter-American Human Rights System on Public Security and Police Violence in Brazil: In Defence of a Rights-Based Approach to Security Policies
Three years after the “Favela Nova Brasília” case, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (‘IACtHR’) is hearing a second police violence case against Brazil, the “Castelinho”. The human rights violations...
The Colonial and Casteist Undertones of Policing in Madhya Pradesh, India
The Criminal Justice and Police Accountability Project studied two sets of data to examine the criminal justice system through excise policing under the Madhya Pradesh Excise Act, 1915 (‘the Act’)....
Reformists Overtook US Political Discourse On Ending Police Violence And Changed Nothing
Over a year ago, in the midst of the uprisings that followed the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, myself and other activists, organisers and prison industrial complex abolitionists...
Why Punitive Policies and Laws Will Not Solve Violent Crime in Jamaica
“Police kill 7 in Braeton”. “Massacre in Tivoli”. “Police death squads uncovered” These headlines tell the story of state violence, sanctioned as a legitimate tool to fight the rise in...
First Nations Deaths in Custody and the Politics of Denial
The announcement of an Australian Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in 1987 promised to be a turning point in First Nations justice. It was a response to widespread...
Student protests in South Africa: police brutality claims the life of a bystander
After the ruthless policing of student protests in Johannesburg claimed the life of an innocent bystander, South Africa’s troubled entanglement with police brutality is once again called into question. In...
India’s Feeble Frontline Defence against Incarceration
An important constitutional safeguard against arbitrary incarceration is the fundamental right of an arrested person to be produced before a judicial magistrate within twenty four hours of the arrest. In...
Police Brutality in the United States (with Shea Streeter)
This episode is part of a four-part series in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. In this episode, we talk to Shea Streeter about the seemingly intractable issue of...
Arbitrary & Disproportionate Criminalisation of Marginalised Communities: A Countermap of Pandemic Policing in India
The Criminal Justice and Police Accountability Project studied 34,000 arrest records and 500 First Information Reports filed in Madhya Pradesh, India to understand the patterns of pandemic policing and locate...
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