Defend the Newham
Socialist Organiser1983 1983-04-14Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 8 →
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They were arrested on September 24 1982 after an incident with plain-clothes police officers. In the previous week there had been three major racist attacks on Asian schoolchildren at Little Ilford School, in Newham, and an incident where 60 or 70 white youth with iron bars and sticks went on the rampage in East Ham and Manor Park.
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These Monitoring Groups work closely with Borough Police Committees. Where there, is a large black population, they check that the Borough committees reflect the interests of blacks. In Hackney, where there is no Monitoring Group, we work with the Hackney Black People's Association and the Borough Police Committee and we have given a grant to the Roach Family Support Committee.
What are you able to do now to combat the arming of the police?
•We have published a report showing the extent to which the police are already armed (based on a thesis by a Met officer). It showed that while the incidence of armed crime has fallen both in London and the country as a whole, and the issue of firearms to the police has remained stable outside London, the issue of firearms to the Met has escalated rapidly between 1976 and 1981. This shows the lie behind the usual Met justifications for arming the police.
We have called for a full and independent public inquiry into the Waldor: shooting - one which is integendent not only of the sub. so: de one judiciary. without charge, to deny suspects access to solicitors for up to two days, to get access to confidential medical and social welfare files and so forth. obtain to be made. statutorily inadmissible in court.
What is your view of Police-Community Liaison Committees?
They are pointless. They have a large Irish population. Many who are active in legitimate political activity feel intimidated by it. It is used against them and used generally to trawl through