Hackney police commander calls on community to ‘take more responsibility’
Marcus Barnett calls for a ‘citizen role’ in policing and defends stop and search as a ‘legal, needed tool’
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Man sectioned following ‘appalling’ assault on pregnant woman in Stamford Hill
Victim, 20, had a pillow thrown over her head before being attacked on Manor Road last week
Hackney shooting: Man wanted for conspiracy to murder
Police appeal for public’s help in tracking down 18-year-old Nadi Kwame
Hundreds defy police ban to pay respects to Sarah Everard at London Fields
‘We will not allow the state to tell us when and how we can gather to grieve and protest’, says Women’s Strike
Council to hold online vigil for Sarah Everard as residents urged to ‘show support virtually’
Town Hall leaders express solidarity with murdered marketing executive and call for an end to ‘damaging culture of victim-blaming’
Police accused of ‘racial profiling’ after stopping member of Hackney police scrutiny group
Hackney Account’s David Smith says ‘everyone should be happy it happened to me and not to someone who doesn’t know the law’
Organiser of 400-person wedding in Stamford Hill facing £10k fine
Borough’s police chief hits out at ‘unacceptable’ behaviour when ‘people across the country are postponing or cancelling celebrations’
Police and council to bolster officer numbers at Broadway Market after last week’s crowds
Traders were forced to close early last weekend as people ‘congregated around shops selling takeaway alcohol’
Campaigners and councillors challenge local police on stop and search
Officers face scrutiny commission in wake of reports showing Black people in Hackney are three and a half times more likely to be stopped than white people
Police investigating theft of thousands of Stik prints intended as ‘gifts for Hackney residents’
Detectives say posters appear to have been stolen ‘somewhere along the supply and distribution chain’ for Town Hall newspaper Hackney Today
Police officer knocked unconscious during arrest in Hackney
Male officer taken to hospital for treatment yesterday after being thrown against a wall at a pub on Mare Street
Renewed calls to tackle racism on third anniversary of Rashan Charles’ death
Mayor speaks of his anger at the lack of closure for the family, who continue to question the police watchdog’s ruling that Charles’ death was ‘accidental’
Two teenagers found guilty of racially aggravated assault on rabbi
The boys, aged 15 and 16, each received a year-long Youth Rehabilitation Order for the attack in Amhurst Park last November
Hackney councillors call on Metropolitan Police to recognise ‘implicit bias’
Equalities boss Cllr Carole Williams and community safety chief Cllr Caroline Selman want police to ‘understand people’s differences’ after figures show stark race disparity in local stop and search
Hackney police’s stance on race disparity in stop and search ‘astounds’ equalities boss
Cllr Carole Williams criticises presentation given by officers, which led her to accuse them of policing ‘based on feelings and beliefs rather than stats and facts’
Middleton Road stop and search incident ‘not in any way surprising’, says monitoring group
The Metropolitan Police has referred itself to the IOPC after footage emerged of a Black man appearing to be kneed in the head by an officer while restrained