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It's @WeCops Wednesday! But we haven't got a chat!

It's nearly Christmas so the fab team are having a rest! But would you like to meet them?!
Here's @DannoReynolds
Force Incident Manager by day & night and an original #WeCopper
Here's @kerrimonaghan1, a Sgt in West Mercia currently the force tactical lead for use of force and stop search. She joined #WeCops 18 months ago after cohosting a chat on #StopandSearch
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Turning talk into action is very important to us @WeCops - please see this 'you said, we did' 🧵thread from @SupportToLLW and @Lesslethalweaps @BTPChief

#WeCops👇
You said – internally about right, externally more work needs to be done to educate and inform the public.

We did - We will be working with forces to understand what their community programmes look like, share best practice and ensure a common minimum standard is achieved. Image
You said –what does that data say? Do a video about the course & dispel any preconceived ideas about it.

We did –asking the Q as part of the annual national data return. Working with partners to produce a short ‘what to expect’ vid featuring instructors, students & stakeholders Image
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Catching up with the reading and looking forward to the chat.

We've expressed public worries about how a focus on intersectionality has lead the police into offering public support to political campaigning - be interested to know if others share this view.

#wecops
And we note this in the pre reading

"It’s where aspects of identity intersect and overlap - e.g. race, class, gender identity, sexual orientation, faith or disability - so that prejudices and discriminations converge and become multiplied."

No mention of sex?
And of course

"More people are talking about intersectionality because we haven’t made the progress towards DEI [diversity, equality and inclusion] that we thought we would have made."

So something isn't working?

#wecops
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The preread for Wednesday's chat is up! 📰
Follow the link to below:

wecops.org/tweet-chats/ch…

Further resources in the following tweets👇

Don't forget the #WeCops hashtag on Wednesday!

Guest hosts this week are @Laks_Mann @deejay_01 @Bloomeroid @andygeorgeni
Read @Laks_Mann's full article in the below link.

THE EXPLORATION AND VALUE OF INTERSECTIONALITY
lgbt.police.uk/article-the-ex…
Read Ubaid Rehman of @CollegeofPolice and Executive Committee of @MetLGBTNetwork article on
BLACK LGBT+ LIVES MATTER: PERSONAL REFLECTIONS
lgbt.police.uk/article-black-…
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@WeCops Unfortunately, I don’t think we really know. Unequal outcomes in policing (internal and external) will result from multiple, inter-connected processes. Not all these relate to ‘UB’. The evidence on these processes, esp in the UK, is pretty limited. /1 #wecops
@WeCops IMO too much time is spent crunching quant data to ‘prove’ or ‘disprove’ bias, and not enough time is spent exploring the mechanisms that could cause it and its consequences. How much bias is individual, cultural, processual, systemic, etc? /2 #wecops
@WeCops UB is a helpful Idea in as far as it enables people to talk more openly and in a less defensive way about bias, prejudice and discrimination. But there are risks with the idea too. It has little explanatory power. It locates the problem in the heads of individuals. /3 #wecops
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