‘I was strip-searched while police officers joked about the smell of my underwear’: Koshka Duff on finally getting an apology from the police.
have exposed the racism and misogyny that are baked into the police as an institution. If it hadn’t been for these protests putting them under pressure, I don’t believe I would ever have received an apology.
As an abolitionist, I believe that police are fundamentally the wrong institution to be dealing with social problems like rough sleeping and drug-related harms, which are often the result of extreme inequality and require care and support, not handcuffs and truncheons. problems shows how inappropriate and dangerous it is for the police to be tasked with responding to people in a mental health crisis.“It is not unusual for the defence to make an application for third party disclosure of a victim’s sensitive and private medical records in criminal proceedings.”The darkest moment for me was when it looked like the chronic pain I developed in the aftermath of my injuries might mean I could never play the piano again.