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...et al, 2020;; Gov.uk, 2019; London.gov.uk, 2020) US England & Wales Black and Latinx drivers were stopped and searched roughly two times more than White drivers (from analysis of data from 100 million traffic stops across US police forces) From April 2018 to March 2019, there were 38 stop and searches for every 1,000 Black people compared to 4 stop and searches for every...

...article explores how this affects the criminal justice system and policing...In the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd by police officers in the US, the OU Open Justice Centre and OU Law School students, with law school students across eight universities, collaborated and participated on a project that explored race and policing in the US and the UK. The race and...

...article explores responses and approaches to these issues by police forces, the community, and at governmental levels. ...More than twenty years after the Macpherson Report (1999), the debate about the existence and extent of institutional racism (and how this concept is defined) within the police forces, and how to address racism in public institutions, remains highly...

...article explores perspectives on organisational culture and individual action...The recent events of the killing of George Floyd by police in the US, Black Lives Matter protests across the US and the UK in 2020, and racial disproportionality in Stop and Searches by police in London, have re-ignited issues of racism and policing in the public sphere and highlight racial...

...articles This collection does not intend to illustrate an overly simplistic picture of policing in the US or England and Wales. Moreover, the comparison(s) drawn between policing in the US and the UK are much more complex and nuanced than explored here. The material differences in contexts, histories of police force development, demography, scale and cultural norms...