Why we chose to spotlight stop-and-search this week

Technology is about to intensify police abuse – this effects all of us.

Police forces across the country are increasingly using crime-predicting technology. Pic: Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona/Unsplash

When a peaceful protestor attending a vigil for Sarah Everard was wrestled to the ground and put in handcuffs, her face made the front pages. Commentators, journalists, and politicians spoke out against the inappropriate and dispr…