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Police Brutality
May 18, 2015
Data-Driven Policing
Communities don’t need to be friends with cops. They need transparency.
May 5, 2015
The Luxury of Hope
What the Baltimore prosecutor's charges in the Freddie Gray case mean to native residents
May 4, 2015
The Language of the Unheard
Why preventing police killings, not bracing for riots, should be a city's priority
May 4, 2015
Tamir Rice's Body Still Isn't Buried Because the Criminal Investigation Keeps Dragging On
May 1, 2015
Baltimore's Prosecutor Gets It
The charges in the Freddie Gray case show that scaring cops is the best way to fight police abuse
May 1, 2015
Liberal Policies Didn’t Fail Baltimore. Here’s What Did.
April 29, 2015
"They Can’t Lock Everybody Up"
Counting down to curfew with Freddie Gray's neighbors in Baltimore
April 29, 2015
Having Black Cops and Black Mayors Doesn't End Police Brutality
A Baltimore writer on racial tension and the limits of diversity
April 29, 2015
The Violence in Baltimore Didn't Start with the Riots
April 27, 2015
What Loretta Lynch Must Do Now
As Baltimore bleeds, the new attorney general needs to shift police culture in a short time
April 13, 2015
Videos of Police Killings Are Numbing Us to the Spectacle of Black Death
March 14, 2015
Language Police
The NYPD can’t delete brutality from its history.
March 13, 2015
It's Time to Focus on the Other Fergusons in America
March 3, 2015
Another Police Killing, Another Twitter Hashtag. But #HomelessLivesMatter Isn't Enough.
February 11, 2015
Want to Stop Police Brutality? Start Disciplining Officers.
December 5, 2014
Don't Let Police Killings of Unarmed Black Men Become Another Forgotten News Fad
December 4, 2014
Why the Left and Right Are Both Angry at Eric Garner's Death
May 25, 1992
Following Orders
Why did the jury vote to acquit the police officers who beat Rodney King?
January 7, 1978
Steve Biko on Death
The South African martyr tells how it will happen.

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