By John Pegram, case worker, public speaker, founder If you’ve been keeping tabs on all things police in Bristol and across Avon and Somerset you’d be right in thinking there’s a lot to be said for police accountability and transparency. Other than currently monitoring stop and search, section 60 and Operation Broadside (think drones, surveillanceContinue reading “Predictive Policing and Subject Access Requests”
Author Archives: Bristol copwatch
2023 in review
By Bristol Copwatch core team As 2023 draws to a close we´re feeling reflective about the past few years of our existence as an independent grassroots police monitoring organisation. This year just like the year before has seen significant revelations and exposure of police misconduct and complete abuses of power locally and across the country. AlthoughContinue reading “2023 in review”
Institutional bickering
By John Pegram, case worker, public speaker, founder When it comes to communities and the police of late, it has most certainly been eventful. We’ve headed from cultures of denial and deflection to clearly bitter acceptance by the police that something is most definitely wrong within their ranks and try as they might there’s noContinue reading “Institutional bickering”
They don’t keep us safe
Bristol Copwatch statement on the armed police and home raid On the evening of the 2nd of May in St Pauls armed police descended on the home of one of our new core team members following a bogus phone call they received around 8 pm the police told press contacts was from a man inContinue reading “They don’t keep us safe”
Show them what time it is.
by Bristol Copwatch Hi! it’s good to catch up once again! We’ve been quiet on this blog for a good few months and hope to keep it updated a lot more regularly. It’s fair to say the past 6 months or so has been exceptionally busy for us and as a grassroots police monitoring groupContinue reading “Show them what time it is.”
Still a bloody criminal
By volunteer caseworker and Bristol Copwatch founder John Pegram Here we are again, the police and me. If you have been following my fight for justice since around February this year you will know I´m on a long road. It´s actually close to 5 years in duration so far and I have a feeling I´mContinue reading “Still a bloody criminal”
Support The Fofanah Family
By Bristol Copwatch We are absolutely stoked to see our fund raiser Support The Fofanah Family for Martina and family has so far raised over £3,000! we’d just like to say thanks to everyone who has donated so far and we have now raised our goal to a stretch target of £7,000 we’re confident withContinue reading “Support The Fofanah Family”
Our aims and objectives 2022 update
Here’s another look at our aims and objectives and most importantly our new posters and fliers designed by the awesome Fan The Flames Marketing and Design! Look out for them round your ends soon! As always #WeCopwatch
Our dear friend Ahmed
By all of us at Bristol Copwatch On the 4th of August 2022, our dear friend and fellow cop watcher Ahmed Fofanah tragically and suddenly left us. All of us within the Bristol Copwatch core organising team are devastated by his death and will never forget his importance as someone we supported during his fightContinue reading “Our dear friend Ahmed”
They don’t protect us
By John Pegram, Bristol Copwatch founder, and caseworker We’ve been fairly quiet over the past few months with this blog and I think it’s fair to say we’ve been very busy so apologies for the radio silence. If you follow us on Twitter or any of our other social channels you should be able toContinue reading “They don’t protect us”