Armed police raid Shard End address as cops continue fight against organised crime gangs
West Midlands Police said the overnight raid was part of continuing efforts to suppress organised violence on the street of Birmingham.
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Firearms police raided a city address as efforts continue to smash organised crime gangs across Birmingham.
Officers from Birmingham East, as well as tactical support teams and armed cops took part in the overnight raid in Shard End.
Why EU needs to be wary that AI will increase racial profiling
Amnesty found that 78 percent of people on the UK s Gangs Matrix in 2017 were black, despite only 29 percent of gang-related crimes being committed by black people (Photo: Tony Gonzalez)
Brussels/Cardiff, Today, 07:01
Whether it be predictive algorithmic systems used in the Netherlands to profile Eastern Europeans and Roma for pick-pocketing , or secretive lists of suspected criminals such as the UK s Gang Matrix, there is a growing reliance on criminal risk-scoring technologies by police forces across Europe.
Police say these systems predict where and by whom crime happens.
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Live updates after boy, 14, stabbed multiple times on basketball court in Burbury Park, Lozells
The boy, 14, was stabbed in Burbury Park in Lozells on Tuesday night
The 14 year old was attacked in Burbury Park in Lozells last night (Tuesday).
Police said he was stabbed multiple times and have appealed for information.
He was taken to hospital where he remains today.
Officers are still at the scene of the incident, in Wheeler Street.
We have a reporter on the way to the scene of the incident.
This is breaking story, stay with us for updates.
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Police are stepping up patrols following a night of shocking violence across Birmingham.
Teenager Jason Alvaro, of Ordnance Road, Enfield, jailed for drug dealing in Chatham
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Updated: 15:11, 24 February 2021
A drug dealer used a vulnerable personâs home as a base to supply drugs, a court heard.
Jason Alvaro had travelled to the Medway Towns to supply drugs, and was found inside a Chatham property, along with 50 wraps of heroin and crack cocaine, which were seized by police.
Jason Alvaro was sentenced to two years in jail. Picture: Kent Police
Yesterday, at Maidstone Crown Court, he sentenced to two years in jail.
The 19-year-old had admitted one charge of possessing heroin with intent to supply and one of possessing crack cocaine with intent to supply.
More than 1,000 young black men have been removed from a controversial police gangs database.
The Metropolitan Police s gang violence matrix was created after the 2011 London riots, to identify those considered at risk of becoming involved in gang violence.
But campaigners accused forces of stigmatising young black men - many with no history of violence or criminal convictions - sometimes on the strength of their social media posts.
London mayor Sadiq Khan ordered a review of the database, which includes suspected gang members and those seen as at risk of becoming involved in violence.
The Metropolitan Police s gang violence matrix was created after the 2011 London riots, to identify those considered at risk of becoming involved in gang violence. Pictured, Police search a young black man whose car they had just stopped as he drove through the City of London