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29 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read

THREAD: 4Front and #KillTheBill --Why we oppose the Police, Crime Sentencing and Courts Bill

Bring in new cautions that impose conditions of fines, forced unpaid work, reporting, contact restrictions and more. Breaching these could see young people arrested without a warrant.

Introduce ‘Serious Violence Reduction Orders (SVROs)’, allowing police to stop and search anyone with an SVRO whenever they’re in public without any reason or suspicion. The orders can be renewed indefinitely, if breached, can mean a young person faces up to two years in prison.

Cautions, injunctions and court orders already scar many young people’s lives and force them, their families, friends and communities deeper into the clutches of the criminal justice system. Harsher restrictions do not solve violence, they create it.

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30 Apr

4Front and #KillTheBill -- Why we oppose the Police, Crime Sentencing and Courts Bill! #KilltheBill

Young people do not belong in cages. For those who are currently imprisoned, over half of whom are Black and brown, incidents of self harm, violence and suicide in prison at record levels, Despite this desperate situation, the Bill threatens to:

Create Secure Academies to imprison 16-19 year olds. These translate the widely discredited academy school model into the prison estate. Existing academy schools can set up or become ‘Secure Academies’. These youth prisons will be run by private companies.

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28 Apr

THREAD: This Bill threatens to massively expand the surveillance, restrictions and racist policing that already damage the lives of many young people. The Bill threatens to:

Force local councils to answer to police on youth violence, giving police the power to control and fund how schools, colleges, health centres and youth offending teams approach the issue.

Allow police to instruct teachers, youth workers and paramedics to give up a young person’s phone in their possession, to take young people’s data and intercept their communications.

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We are commencing legal action against @metpoliceuk . When we believe members of our team have been treated unlawfully by the police, we will seek legal advice and take legal action where necessary. (1/13)
#DEFUNDTHEPOLICE

We are appalled by the daily abuse, violence, and harm inflicted specifically on young Black people by the police. The campaign by police to criminalise young Black people is so robust that all those in proximity to them are subjected to maltreatment and criminalisation. (2/13)

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