Cotch: Tough on crime in fantasy land

The first post on the new photography-oriented cotch dot net is up.  It’s a quick review of the police stop-and-search policy, in place across London as a counter-terrorism measure, and in particular the decision to consider photography to be a suspicious activity worth stopping.  Of course, it takes the skeptical approach, finding that the policy is based more on a fictional idea of how the world works rather than on any evidence of efficacy.  You can read it here.