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Police Shootings
May 25, 2023
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Ted Genoways
How a Refugee’s American Dream Ended in a Police Killing
A massive pork plant known for labor violations called the police on a disgruntled employee. Then a co-worker started filming.
February 3, 2023
Anthony Conwright
Videos of Police Brutality Against Black People Are a Futile Spectacle
The ritual of repeated “reckonings” hasn’t changed abuses by cops.
June 21, 2021
Melissa Gira Grant
Who Are the Police Protecting and Serving at Pride?
Demands to welcome cops at Pride amount to a collective hallucination, as if the policing of gender and sexuality by the state was a thing of the past.
April 14, 2021
Melissa Gira Grant
Once Again, Police Rally Around Their Death-Dealing Power
Daunte Wright was dead. Minnesota police raised a “thin blue line” flag, claiming their deadly force with a mark of pride.
August 31, 2020
Redditt Hudson
The Hell of Being a Black Cop
Why Black officers have to be at the forefront of efforts to transform America’s racist police culture.
August 24, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
When “Police Reform” Came to Kenosha, Wisconsin
Jacob Blake was critically injured when cops shot him in the back on Sunday. Six years ago, a new law was supposed to bring change.
June 18, 2020
Michael Brenes
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Tim Keogh
Lessons From the Long Movement to Defund the Military
What “Defund the Police” can learn from the six-decade effort to radically demilitarize U.S. foreign policy
June 17, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
The Political Power of Protests
How does direct action shape policy?
June 2, 2020
Matt Ford
The Police Were a Mistake
Law enforcement agencies have become the standing armies that the Founders feared.
May 30, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
The Deep Amnesia of Our National Conscience
There can be no healing in America without an honest reckoning with racial injustice—but we have long known that.
May 28, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Pandemic Is the Right Time to Defund the Police
The coronavirus has slowed much American police work, but the rate of police killings has remained relatively unchanged.
October 3, 2019
Melissa Gira Grant
Not Even the Police Union Could Save Amber Guyger
She has become one of the rare cops to be convicted of murder, despite a system that often works in their favor.
August 6, 2019
Melissa Gira Grant
Police Killed Her Boyfriend, Then Charged Her With His Murder
"Felony murder" laws across America are being used to charge juveniles with crimes they didn't commit.
April 5, 2018
Matt Ford
Saheed Vassell’s death shows why police have too much discretion to kill.
March 22, 2018
Matt Ford
Body-cam footage shows Sacramento police killing an unarmed black man.
September 27, 2017
Mychal Denzel Smith
Trump Made Kaepernick’s Protest About Him. Here’s How to Take it Back.
Taking the knee has become an anodyne symbol of opposition to a reviled president. But there are ways to get Kaepernick's original message across.
June 20, 2017
Brandon Harris
Searching for Justice for Samuel DuBose
Two years after his death at the hands of police officer Raymond Tensing, a jury stands poised to deliver a historic verdict.
June 16, 2017
Clio Chang
The cop who killed Philando Castile has been acquitted of all charges.
May 3, 2017
Lovia Gyarkye
The last 72 hours have signaled a troubling future for police reform under the Trump administration.
April 17, 2017
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Steve Featherstone
Professor Carnage
Dave Grossman teaches police officers to think like "warriors." But is the rise of a militarized mindset turning black citizens into targets?
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