Labour’s new Minister for Policing and Crime worked with a radical group which campaigns to “defund the police.“ What about all that weekend briefing that crime will magically come to an end because Shabana Mahmood is Home Secretary now?
On 27 October 2022 Sarah Jones, who was shuffled to policing from trade over the last weekend, arranged a meeting in Parliament with representatives from StopWatch, a “coalition” which seeks to “hold the police to account.“ This was when Jones last had the policing brief as Shadow Minister for Policing and Crime…
StopWatch campaigns to “defund the police” and “withdraw consent to policing.” Its executive director Habib Kadiri has claimed in arguments familiar to followers of American leftist politics that “by defunding the police more money could be pushed further upstream to organisation that might be able to change this person’s behaviour at any point”…
The campaign works to oppose Stop and Search powers and claims the police “actively pose a threat to [people’s] lives,” that they “terrorise marginalised and vulnerable communities in many and novel ways,” show “systematic brutality and incompetence,” and are a “racist boys club, for those who despise the working class.” The meeting with Jones is described by the group:
“On Thursday 27th October, three of our girls – Sydney (senior co-researcher), Holly (StopWatch’s policy and research officer), and Sara (senior co-researcher) – visited the Houses of Parliament for a meeting with shadow minister for policing, Sarah Jones MP, to discuss misogyny in policing, violence against women, and youth justice. Some of the discussion involved sharing early findings from our research which was warmly welcomed by Sarah Jones. Everyone in the meeting concluded that there must be reform in policing in the UK that includes having more trauma-informed training from the start of their careers. What help are the police if they lack compassion in incidents where compassion, empathy, and understanding are needed the most?”
In a 2021 trustees’ report StopWatch boasted that one of its “main achievements” was to have “developed links with Sarah Jones.“ How deep do those links run?
The campaign has close associations with prominent Labour politicians. It was launched in Parliament by Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy. Katrina Ffrench, the group’s chief executive from 2018-2020, was also the chairman of the “Stop and Search Community Monitoring Framework” for Sadiq Khan’s MOPAC office. She was since elected a Labour councillor in Wandsworth…
So much for the reset reshuffle’s newfound toughness on crime. To be sorted in Phase 4 no doubt…
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