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  • Open letter — The Policing Bill and Mental Health

    January 13, 2022
    Open letter — The Policing Bill and Mental Health

    An open letter by mental health professionals to express concern over the negative impact of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill on young people’s mental health and escalation in ‘criminal’ behaviour.


  • The Public Health Case Against the Policing Bill

    November 15, 2021
    The Public Health Case Against the Policing Bill

    This briefing argues that the PCSC Bill’s expansion of police power and prisons will in fact harm public health


  • On Tasers, policing and imagining new responses to violence

    October 18, 2019
    On Tasers, policing and imagining new responses to violence

    With the recent announcement of Tasers being made more widely available for use by the police in the UK, black feminist organiser and Global Health postgraduate Sarah Lasoye argues that the health community must take notice.


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