Islamophobic Attacks On Croydon Mosques
Yesterday, on 9th January, in the early hours two Mosques in Croydon were attacked with racist Islamophobic graffiti.
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Police Facial Recognition Surveillance – Ethics Panel To Consider Our Evidence
The London Police Ethics Panel has indicated that they will consider our report on the Mets deployment of live facial recognition surveillance in Croydon as part of their five year review of Metropolitan Police use of live facial recognition in London. Our report documents systemic racism in how the technology is used by the Met and also bias in the technology against people of colour.
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Watching The Watchers
This week we monitored a met police live facial recognition deployment in Croydon. 83% were wrongful stopped, and we witnessed systemic racism with most black suspects (all innocent) being immediately handcuffed before checks were carried out despite fully cooperating with the police – one shackled for over 30mins, whilst white suspects were never handcuffed before checks were carried out. Black innocent suspects were on average stopped for over twice as long as white innocent suspects.
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Why is the Met running ‘off the books’ facial recognition surveillance of #Filton10 Palestine protest?
Recently we observed a rogue ‘off the books’ police facial recognition surveillance of a peaceful Palestine protest that didn’t follow Met procedures and doesn’t appear on the official Met LFR deployment logs.
Community Demands Police Stop Facial Recognition Surveillance
The Resistance Kitchen, along with 20 other community organisations, with the support of several local councillors, have launched a campaign to stop the Metropolitan Police’s use of live facial recognition surveillance of our community.
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Met’s Lead On Facial Recognition – Insightful Exchange
The Resistance Kitchen had a short, but insightful exchange, on a public forum, with Lindsey Chiswick, the Director of Intelligence for the Metropolitan Police Service, who is also the National Police Chiefs’ Council Lead on Facial Recognition.
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Stop Police Facial Recognition Surveillance
Police live facial recognition surveillance vans have recently invaded our public spaces in Croydon. They target marginalised communities – scanning their faces to steal their biometric data without their consent, treating them like suspects forced into a digital line up against a police watchlist every time they walk near the van…
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London Race Action Plan – A Serious Attempt At Anti-Racism Or Just Window Dressing?
This week I attended the London Police Race Action Plan community engagement meeting in Croydon, aimed at ending the systemic racism of the Metropolitan Police Service.
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Charged, Found Guilty & Sentenced – But Still A Police Officer
Why is a convicted felon, found guilty of assaulting a black mother in front of her traumatised child, still on the police force one month after his sentencing?
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Stop Deportation Action – Stonebridge
On Tuesday 21st May the we joined a stop deportation action at Stonebridge Lodge in Thornton Heath, just a few streets from our kitchen.
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