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”
Category Archives: Community engagement
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”
Oxford Workshop 09/04/22- Stop and search, bystander intervention and how to Copwatch
We’ve got a workshop coming up in Oxford on 09/04/22 at Blackbird Leys Community Centre with Oxford Copwatch, other groups, and community members who want to monitor the police in their county. The event will be starting from 2pm and our founding member John and fellow cop watcher Ahmed from our core team are headingContinue reading “Oxford Workshop 09/04/22- Stop and search, bystander intervention and how to Copwatch”