Most studies show stop and search to be ineffective at best. Policymakers should look for alternatives ...

Discussion of stop and search focuses on its use as a crime deterrent. But this ignores its use as an investigatory power.

The increases in stop and search during 2020-21 continue to yield the same results as years past – targeting black people and mainly resulting in the detection of low-level drug possession offences.

For example, a 2016 study found that a stop-and-search operation in some London boroughs had no effect on police-recorded knife crime.

The UK's largest police force is to overhaul its use of stop and search, but why is this tactic so controversial and are there viable alternatives?

The conservatives have been in power for 12 years. That is long enough for some policies to be tried, ditched and revived. Stop-and-search, a policing technique in which people are stopped on the ...

This 64-page report examines the use of the stop-and-search power under section 44 of the act. The power is intended to prevent terrorism. But despite almost 450,000 section 44 stops and searches ...

The lawful and proportionate use of stop and search by officers, in line with procedural justice, should help to maintain public trust, police legitimacy and policing by consent.

Alex Beresford reports on one of the UK’s most controversial police tactics - stop and search - as nearly 700,000 were carried out between April 2020 and March 2021 in England and Wales ...