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Police Brutality
September 21, 2016
Police shootings of black men are major news again—just in time for the election.
August 2, 2016
Bill Bratton’s gone. What’s next for police reform activists?
August 1, 2016
Black Lives Matter has gone beyond reforming the police.
July 26, 2016
Day two of the DNC will be about police brutality and gun violence.
July 18, 2016
How long can Hillary Clinton walk the tight rope of racial justice politics?
July 18, 2016
Freddie Gray broke his own neck.
July 11, 2016
Police Officers Pay a High Price for Their Work
Negative public image, chronic stress, and trauma all take a toll on the mental and physical health of officers.
July 7, 2016
Is Minnesota the “Jim Crow North”?
May 23, 2016
Baltimore offers another reminder of how slanted the scales of justice are in cases of police killings.
March 3, 2016
25 years after Rodney King, are we numb to videos of police violence?
January 31, 2016
Police chiefs are starting to acknowledge that fatal shootings are a systemic issue.
January 27, 2016
Before he shot Laquan McDonald, Jason Van Dyke repeatedly tampered with his dashcam recording equipment.
January 27, 2016
Ferguson residents finally get their say in the city’s settlement process with the Department of Justice.
January 20, 2016
Find out what your local government does—and, more importantly, doesn’t do—to limit the use of force by police.
January 20, 2016
The Tamir Rice grand jury decision just got even more infuriating.
January 18, 2016
The Democrats finally got around to mentioning “structural racism” Sunday, but they still didn’t debate it.
January 15, 2016
The Ferguson Effect gets the Trump treatment.
January 14, 2016
Does it even matter what and when Rahm Emanuel knew about Laquan McDonald’s death?
January 12, 2016
The Alabama police chief who shot Cameron Massey in 2013 also shot an unarmed black man 30 years earlier.
January 6, 2016
Sandra Bland’s arresting officer has been indicted for perjury.

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