military and law enforcement
News and articles about work, policy and mutinies in armed forces and police services around the world.
Stop and search guide to your rights
A page of information about police stop and search powers in the UK and your rights when you are stopped and searched.
What is a ‘Stop and Search’?
Police officers can stop and talk to you at any time. But they should only search you if they suspect you are carrying:
- Drugs
- Weapons
- Stolen property
- Tools which could be used to commit a crime
Why me?
Oaxaca communards shot by police
Four people have been wounded after police and hired thugs loyal to Governor Ruiz opened fire on a popular assembly's 'mobile brigade'.
Members and supporters of the Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca (APPO) have been injured by police gunfire in an incident on October 10th outside the Department of Civil Protection. Part of an APPO 'mobile brigade', the group had spent the day painting slogans and peacefully occupying government premises when they were attacked.
Shoot to Kill
This article is from Black Flag in 1999. It analyses the British state's use of shoot to kill.
Bush seeks to avoid human rights violation charges
Bush is trying to pass legislation that would immunise government personnel for abuses against detainees at Guantanamo, in Afghanistan, and in Iraq, including those abuses it authorised.
If the Bush administration is still good at anything, it's this: distracting its opponents and seizing little victories from what might have been big defeats.
House OKs controversial detainee treatment trial bill
The Bush administration’s controversial military commissions and detainee treatment bill is one step closer to being signed into law.
On Wednesday, the House approved its version of the measure, leaving it to a vote in the Senate today. Under the new bill, detainees would be prevented from challenging their imprisonment and denied access to evidence used against them.
France: 200 riot police invade Paris estate
Police have made 9 arrests in the Tarterets estate after two cops were ambushed and badly beaten there last week.
The police are widely hated by France’s urban poor for their brutal and often racist repression – they tend to beat banlieu (suburb) kids rather than arrest them. The fear of this caused 17 year-old Zyed Benna and 15 year-old Bouna Traore to run and hide from police in an electricity substation in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois in October last year.
1970-1978: The US prisoners' movement
Howard Zinn's history of the movement of US prisoners and supporters on the outside against poor conditions and ill-treatment.
1990-1991: Iraqi mass mutiny in the Gulf War
History of the widespread desertion and mutiny in the Iraqi military which saw the rapid end of the occupation of Kuwait and the Gulf War of 1990-1 with the US and its allies.
1919: The Calais mutiny
A short history of the strike and mutiny of British troops stationed in France following the end of the First World War which won concessions and helped speed up demobbing.
As the end of World War I was nearing, the British Army was being used more extensively in France, as the French military had largely disintegrated due to widespread mutiny. However, as time progressed, British soldiers were proving equally unwilling to fight and to obey.
1919: The RAF Biggin Hill mutiny
A short history of the victorious rebellion of British servicemen in the air force who were living in appalling conditions, soon after World War I.
