6 h. ago ‘I didn’t start out wanting to see kids’: are porn algorithms feeding a generation of paedophiles – or creating one?

More than 850 men a month are arrested for online child abuse offences in England and Wales. They come from every walk of life: teachers, police officers, doctors, TV presenters. And the numbers are rising every year. How did this happen?Andy was enjoying a weekend away with his wife when it happened. “My neighbour phoned me and said, ‘The police are in your house. They’re looking for you.’” He didn’t need to wonder why. “You know. You know the reason. I was petrified when I got that call. It wasn’t just the thought of other people knowing what I had done; I also had to face myself, and that is a sick feeling – it is guilt, shame.”Andy had been watching and sharing images of children being sexually abused for several months before the police appeared at his door. He tried at first to keep it from his wife: “I was afraid she would ask me to leave. I wouldn’t have blamed her if she had.” Continue reading...

Politics

11 h. ago Couple arrested after complaining about daughter's school on WhatsApp speak out

Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine were put in a cell after six police officers descended on their home in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, following their comments in a WhatsApp group

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12 h. ago 'It was like being in a police state': The deplorable truth of what REALLY happened when six police officers turned up to arrest a couple over WhatsApps about their child's school

Amid the horror of being told she was under arrest, Rosalind Levine remembers a flash of another, visceral, emotion.

Events

20 h. ago Police officer dismissed for 'misogynistic behaviour towards female colleagues'

The case was described as 'shocking' by one constable

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24 h. ago Hillsborough families 'livid' as police watchdog finds top cops DIDN'T smear fans

A 12-year inquiry has found no senior police officers were guilty of misconduct for falsely blaming misbehaviour by Liverpool fans for the FA Cup tragedy that killed 97 people in 1989

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25 h. ago Huddersfield murder probe: Boy, 16, dies after being knifed in the neck in town centre

A stretch of Ramsden Street in Huddersfield town centre was covered in blood, with West Yorkshire Police officers taping off a large area of the town centre following the shocking attack on Thursday afternoon

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28 h. ago Police officer who tried to meet boy, 14, while carrying 'limb restraints and bondage equipment' in Aldi bag is jailed

Inspector Thomas Kettleborough, 35, had sexually explicit conversations with what he thought was a 14-year-old boy he had met on Grindr and arranged to meet him in a car park.

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36 h. ago Officer Accused of Threats, Stalking Fired from New London Police Force

Officer Accused of Threats, Stalking Fired from New London Police Force  CT Examiner

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40 h. ago New London fires police officer who's been arrested four times

New London fires police officer who's been arrested four times  The Day

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41 h. ago New London police officer facing domestic violence charges fired after fourth arrest, mayor says

New London police officer facing domestic violence charges fired after fourth arrest, mayor says  Hartford Courant

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42 h. ago Man shot dead at train station by police after running at officers with a knife is named

He was seen on police bodycam and CCTV with a blade in his hand sprinting towards cops outside the city station's entrance on Tuesday, April 1, at 1.04pm.

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43 h. ago 'Knifeman' shot dead by police outside Milton Keynes train station after 'moving at speed towards officers' is named

He was seen on police bodycam and CCTV with a blade in his hand sprinting towards cops outside the city station's entrance on Tuesday, April 1, at 1.04pm.

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43 h. ago Police officer jailed for child sex offences after being caught in sting

Inspector Thomas Kettleborough, 35, was caught by officers from the South West Regional Organised Crime Unit.

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44 h. ago New London fires police officer who was arrested for a fourth time: mayor

New London fires police officer who was arrested for a fourth time: mayor  NBC Connecticut

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44 h. ago New London police officer fired after being arrested 4 times

New London police officer fired after being arrested 4 times  WTNH.com

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44 h. ago The moment Sen. Ted Cruz flies into a rage with Sen. Amy Klobuchar over ‘radical judges’

Federal judges have issued 17 nationwide injunctions against Trump’s policies since his return to office

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48 h. ago Paisley businessman's shock as police raid cannabis farm above furniture shop

Ryan Hutchins, director of Lara May Sofas, learned of the cultivation on Tuesday when police officers swooped on the third and fourth floors of the building on Causeyside Street.

Economics

55 h. ago Vilified, arrested, held incommunicado: that's the price of protest in Britain today | George Monbiot

It seems to me that whatever the charges facing the activists at the Quaker meeting house raid, their fundamental crime is dissentThe faces are different, but it’s the same authoritarianism. Keir Starmer’s team might not look or sound like Donald Trump’s, but its policies on protest and dissent are chillingly similar. So is the reason: coordinated global lobbying by the rich and powerful, fronted by rightwing junktanks.Last week, six young women were having tea and biscuits in the Quaker meeting house in Westminster. Twenty police officers forced open the door and arrested them on conspiracy charges. Had the police discovered a plot to blow up parliament or to poison the water supply? No. It was an openly advertised, routine meeting of a protest group called Youth Demand, discussing climate breakdown and the assault on Gaza.George Monbiot is a Guardian columnistThe Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism, by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison, was published in paperb...

Events

57 h. ago Upstate New York officer won't face criminal charges after fatally shooting a 13

An upstate New York police officer will not face criminal charges in the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old boy who pointed what turned out to be a BB gun last June

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59 h. ago SafeSport knew of allegations against former cop before hiring him as investigator

People at the U.S. Center for SafeSport knew a former police officer was the subject of an internal investigation for sex crimes at his former job but hired him anyway

Economics