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As Green Mayor I will take action for a safe and healthy city.

Stop and Search - photo by Eye DJ on flickr CC-BY-SA
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Policing by consent? Sharp rise in London borough-wide stop and search orders

Aug 22, 2018Oct 15, 2018 Sian Berry 5126 Views

Police are issuing record numbers of Section 60 orders that put residents in whole boroughs under blanket stop and search

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Sian Berry at Police and Crime Committee
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Let’s reduce reoffending – more young people in custody should get a second chance

Aug 20, 2018 Sian Berry 3102 Views

Expanding the successful Divert scheme will mean that more young people in custody get a second chance in life and

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Sian Berry speaks to police during trials of facial recognition technology
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Watching the watchers – keeping up pressure on police over facial recognition trials

Jul 27, 2018Jan 3, 2019 Sian Berry 3073 Views

Yesterday I went to watch the watchers, as the police continued using facial recognition technology on unsuspecting Londoners at Westfield.

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Visiting the Holloway Prison site
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Examining the plight of women in the criminal justice system

Jul 25, 2018Jan 3, 2019 Sian Berry 3895 Views

On behalf of the Police and Crime Committee I launched a major report this week asking for more women offenders

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youth centre closures bite
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Youth service cuts reach £145 million since 2011 – are we turning a corner?

Mar 20, 2018Mar 20, 2018 Sian Berry 7394 Views

I have just published an updated 2018 report on my research into youth service cuts. This follows last year’s report

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Sian Berry asking the Mayor about new funding for knife crime prevention
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Hope for new funds for youth services with our budget amendment

Jan 28, 2018Jan 28, 2018 Sian Berry 3693 Views

This week we put forward our Green budget amendment for 2018-19 and there’s real hope the Mayor is listening and

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Sian Berry questioning the Met about knife crime communications
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Why are police showing pictures of knives in primary schools?

Dec 29, 2017Dec 30, 2017 Sian Berry 6228 Views

I have been working for some time to improve the quality of communications to young people on knife crime. The

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Streatham petitioners at City Hall
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Appalled at Mayor’s dismissal of public views on police front counters

Nov 2, 2017Nov 10, 2017 Sian Berry 3116 Views

Just three weeks after the end of a rushed consultation, the Mayor has condemned police stations across London. The Mayor’s

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Assembly meeting on women and criminal justice
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Assembly starts work on problems faced by women offenders

Nov 1, 2017Nov 5, 2017 Sian Berry 4211 Views

We heard powerful evidence from guests at the first Police and Crime Committee meeting on women and the criminal justice

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MQT tasers and spit hoods
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Frustrating answers on human rights, tasers and spit hoods

Sep 18, 2017Oct 1, 2017 Sian Berry 3965 Views

Spit hoods are being used in London’s custody suites and I’ve been asking about early signs of discrimination. The hoods

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BBC news report on youth service cuts
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Crumbs for London youth services

Sep 5, 2017Oct 1, 2017 Sian Berry 2979 Views

The Government is backing youth services at last, but in London this won’t fill the gaps left by cuts. Today

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Questioning the Mayor on Grenfell estimates
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Could the Mayor help provide a better estimate of Grenfell Tower losses?

Jul 7, 2017Jul 10, 2017 Sian Berry 3083 Views

At policing questions in the London Assembly on 6 July I asked the Mayor if he could use his position

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Sian Berry, Caroline Russell in the Assembly
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Statement from Green AMs after London Bridge attack

Jun 4, 2017Nov 12, 2017 Sian Berry 2757 Views

Caroline Russell AM and I have made the following joint statement this morning on the attack in London Bridge. We

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Sian Berry AM with CCTV poster - caught on camera but for how long?
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Caught on camera… but for how long?

Apr 3, 2017Apr 3, 2017 Sian Berry 13696 Views

Victims of crimes on public transport need to know that there’s only a short time before CCTV evidence is lost.

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Photo credit alisdare hickson on flickr cc-by-sa
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Scrap unaccountable spy cops in Mayor’s Police and Crime Plan

Mar 3, 2017Mar 3, 2017 Sian Berry 2922 Views

Abuse by undercover police must end, with ‘spy cop’ operations made accountable to Londoners in the Mayor’s new Police and

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