3 April 2014 — OurKingdom
It’s ten years since the Independent Police Complaints Commission was founded, and they’ve utterly failed.
Tag: ippc
Series of scandals shakes public trust in the police By Ben Gliniecki
3 April 2014 — Socialist Appeal
A recent report by the Inspectorate of the Constabulary (HMIC) announced that public trust in the police has been severely shaken by the long list of scandals that have been revealed in recent months. Clearly someone at HMIC is being paid a large salary to say things that everybody else already knows. The working class has long recognised that the police is a pillar of the bourgeois state which is, in the last analysis, committed to defending the interests of the ruling class. What is remarkable is the frankness with which the establishment admits the loss of public confidence in the police. This reflects the weakness of the ruling class at a time when, more than ever, they require a strong state to attack the working class.
Media Lens: The Neverending ‘Wakeup Call’ By David Cromwell and David Edwards
2 April 2014 — Media Lens
The new report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is clear that the impacts of climate change are likely to be ‘severe, pervasive and irreversible’. Impacts include droughts, floods, heat waves, endangered species, crop failure, food insecurity, famine and even war.
UK police get away with killing of Mark Duggan By Julie Hyland
10 January 2014 — WSWS
The eight to two verdict by a coroner’s inquest that Mark Duggan was lawfully killed by London’s Metropolitan Police is a travesty of justice.
The jurors arrived at their findings despite unanimous agreement that the 29-year-old father of six was unarmed when he was shot twice in Tottenham, north London by an armed police officer on August 4, 2011.
The British Police: getting away with murder since 1969 By Koos Couvé
9 August 2013 — Open Democracy
The New Dark Age 