In this episode, we challenge how policing is justified as safeguarding. Joined by the Runnymede Trust’s own Sophia Purdy-Moore, Sayce Holmes-Lewis, founder and CEO of Mentivity, and JMF, a content creator connected to Mentivity, Richie Brave asks whether current policing approaches truly protect young people, or sometimes cause harm in the name of safety.

Links:

The Runnymede Trust, Keeping Us Safe: Rethinking Policing, Harm and Justice, London: The Runnymede Trust, 2024

Adam Elliott-Cooper, Black Resistance to British Policing, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021

Baroness Louise Casey, The Baroness Casey Review: An Independent Review into the Standards of Behaviour and Internal Culture of the Metropolitan Police Service, London: Crown Copyright, 2023

Dr Laura Connelly, Roxy Legane, and Dr Remi Joseph-Salisbury, Decriminalise the Classroom: A Community Response to Police in Greater Manchester’s Schools, Manchester: Kids of Colour and Northern Police Monitoring Project, August 2020

The statements made by guests on this podcast do not necessarily represent the views of the Runnymede Trust.

Violence isn’t the starting point. This episode explores everything that happens before violence appears. Joined by Jay Yambuya, co-founder of No More Exclusions, and Jenni Steele from Juvenis, Richie Brave looks at the factors before the spark that often don’t make the headlines.

Links:

The Runnymede Trust, History on Loop: Black and Asian British Children Are Locked Out of the Classroom, London: The Runnymede Trust, 2021.

The statements made by guests on this podcast do not necessarily represent the views of the Runnymede Trust.

There is a myth that youth violence has a face: Black and male.

This shapes who gets stopped by police, who gets excluded from school, and who is automatically labelled as dangerous.

In this episode, Richie Brave sits down with rapper KOJ and researcher and lecturer Dr Becky Clarke to understand how that image is conjured through history, policy and the media.

By stripping violence of stereotypes, we stop asking “what’s wrong with young people?” and instead consider their lived reality.

Links

The Justice Project: Sites of Resistance, Manchester Metropolitan University

Becky Clarke and Patrick Williams, ‘Dangerous associations: Joint enterprise, gangs and racism’, London: Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, January 2016

Episode credits

‘Ami’s Story’ (voiced by an actor) from The Audio Content Fund’s series 'Equal Britain?'

The statements made by guests on this podcast do not necessarily represent the views of the Runnymede Trust.

Living with violence is the reality for many young people, but who is the victim, and who is the perpetrator?

Presented by Richie Brave and brought to you by the Runnymede Trust, this series encourages us to flip the narrative to question who gets forgotten, and how we can really keep young people safe.

The statements made by guests on this podcast do not necessarily represent the views of the Runnymede Trust.