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Posts Tagged ‘police’

Hackney man jailed for five years after antisemitic tirades near synagogue

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 2 June 2026 at 11:49
Photograph of Tavius Jean-Charles

Tavius Jean-Charles, 36, shouted death threats at members of the Jewish community and suggested a Jewish school should be blown up

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‘I’m running out of hope’: NHS worker driven to brink after 20 months of hell from anti-social neighbour

By Niall Holden | Monday 1 June 2026 at 12:34
photograph of Hackney Town Hall

Tenant left sleep-deprived and on verge of breakdown by ‘nocturnal’ neighbour

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Man arrested after shouting ‘shame Hitler didn’t kill you’ on 254 bus

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 8 May 2026 at 11:37
Photograph of a man being arrested over a suspected antisemitic hate crime

Threats were made against Jewish passengers on a bus in Upper Clapton Road

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Police ‘fail to protect’ women and girls from ‘unacceptable’ hate crime levels on TfL

By Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 25 March 2026 at 11:10
Sadiq Khan with met police

There were 4,593 VAWG (violence against women and girls) offences on the Tfl network in 2025, with just 3 per cent resulting in a charge or summons

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‘The destruction of our livelihoods’ – Ridley Road Shopping Village traders to hold public meeting as ‘evictions’ loom

By James Barnes | Sunday 15 March 2026 at 09:12
Fatimata owner of Bedding Outlet at RRSV

Traders told to leave by 31 March as their landlord has declined to renew their tenancies

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Young people don’t trust Met Police or feel safe in their area, report shows

By Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 16 February 2026 at 14:01
Police car

An investigation found young Londoners “feel they are not believed by the police” and that “they are seen as a suspect first”

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Met Police fall short on key call handler target – ‘there is more to be done’

By Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 17 December 2025 at 10:14
Police sign

Call handlers are failing to meet the force’s target to answer 90 per cent of emergency calls within 10 seconds

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‘So many layers of lies’ – police spied on Hackney organisation working to expose Met corruption, inquiry hears

By Lizzie McAllister | Tuesday 16 December 2025 at 13:15

The Hackney Community Defence Association (HCDA) was the subject of police monitoring for a decade

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Met Police may face further staffing cuts if Home Office fails to bridge funding gap say bosses

By Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 12 December 2025 at 10:14
Police car

The Met Police have suggested they could be forced to make staffing and recruitment changes if they don’t receive an expected funding uplift from the Home Office

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Woman injured and man dead in Clissold Park shooting – as police appeal for witnesses

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 18 September 2025 at 15:28

Officers confirm that the pair were ‘known to each other’ and they believe it was an ‘isolated incident’

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Greens welcome Met’s removal of 371 school officers – but others brand it ‘most catastrophic decision in keeping children safe’

By Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter | Thursday 4 September 2025 at 13:42
Hackney mayor Zoë Garbett

Surveys revealed that 93 per cent of Londoners supported the presence of Safer Schools Officers in school buildings

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Man who killed partner in car then confessed to brother is detained under Mental Health Act

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 1 September 2025 at 22:39
Kennedi Westcarr-Sabaroche

Gogoa Lois Tape was sentenced to a hospital order for the manslaughter of Kennedi Westcarr-Sabaroche

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Man guilty over Dalston shooting that left nine-year-old girl with bullet lodged in brain

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 18 August 2025 at 18:54
Javon Riley was found guilty of three charges of attempted murder and causing grievous bodily harm with intent

Javon Riley, 33, had denied three charges of attempted murder, relating to three men, and causing grievous bodily harm with intent to the girl

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‘Treating us all as suspects’ – Doubts over success of Met Police’s Live Facial Recognition technology

By Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter | Saturday 16 August 2025 at 09:37
Critical: Green party London Assembly Member and Dalston councillor Cllr Zoë Garbett

Critics have branded the use of LFR, which maps a person’s unique facial features, and matches them against faces on watchlists, as an ‘erosion of civil liberties

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Indefinite ban for Hackney man who left dogs in crates without food or water

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 5 August 2025 at 21:52
Nipsy in crate

Matthew Berry handed lifetime ban following RSPCA investigation

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Inside a record store’s fight for survival in Hackney

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 1 August 2025 at 09:11

Recycle Vinyl’s owner came to Dalston with dreams of a multi-use record shop and dance space – the reality has been harsh

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Council casts doubt on ruling that race was ‘not a factor’ in Child Q incident

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 27 June 2025 at 15:53

Police complaints body says sacked Child Q officers guilty of ‘gross misconduct’ but teenage girl’s ‘humiliating’ strip-search was not prompted by her race

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Child Q: Two Met officers’ strip-search of 15-year-old Black girl at school was gross misconduct

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 26 June 2025 at 16:25

‘They failed to follow the policies that exist to ensure that children in these situations have appropriate protective measures in place’

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Police launch murder probe after stabbing and gas explosion in Stoke Newington

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 17 June 2025 at 20:54

Victim named as 46-year-old Annabel Rook, with man, 44, arrested following ‘domestic-related incident’

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Dalston councillor slams ‘discriminatory’ use of facial recognition

By Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter | Wednesday 2 April 2025 at 11:46

Green co-leader Zoë Garbett criticises police as data shows face scanners mostly used in boroughs with large Black populace

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