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Policing
October 27, 2020
Jennifer Swann
The Ballot Initiative That Could Change How You Think About Defunding the Police
To build community support, organizers in L.A. flipped the message—and tactic—from taking money away from cops to locking in funds for everything else. Will it work?
October 20, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
An Anti-Rape Movement Without Police
A case out of Wisconsin reveals how fragile—and superficial—coalitions between anti-violence organizations and police really are.
July 6, 2020
Isabel Cristo
Policing Doesn’t Protect Women
As abolitionist frameworks enter the mainstream, addressing gendered and sexual violence is treated like a conceptual trap. It’s not.
June 25, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Justice Department’s Fake Fight Against Sex Trafficking
Newspapers love a good “Feds take down sex trafficking” story, even if there are no sex traffickers actually taken down.
June 11, 2020
Jasper Craven
The Police’s “Sheepdog” Problem
Twenty percent of cops are military veterans—and some are fighting to rid policing of fear-based training and a testosterone-fueled culture.
June 8, 2020
Rebecca Pierce
The Limits and Dangers of a Fixation on “Nonviolence”
On peaceful protest, “outside agitators,” and the radical agency of the oppressed
June 2, 2020
Adam Weinstein
This Is Fascism
Trump is sending an unambiguous message to a country in turmoil—and his armed supporters, from cops to vigilantes, hear it loud and clear.
April 24, 2020
Joseph Osmundson
My Life in Sero-Surveillance
Those of us affected by the AIDS epidemic know the importance—and dangers—of antibody testing.
April 21, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
A Brief Criminal History of the Mask
How a New York law on “masquerading” passed in the early nineteenth century has been used—and abused—in the decades since
February 18, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Trump Administration Finally Broke the Anti-Trafficking Movement
The bipartisan movement to “combat trafficking” was built on many of the same superficialities as the First Family, but everyone has their limit.
October 16, 2018
Jo Livingstone
The New DNA Paradigm
Do we control our genetic information, or is it controlling us?
August 30, 2018
Jo Livingstone
Crime + Punishment
Examines the Scourge of Police Quotas
A new documentary tells the story of cops who have blown the whistle on the NYPD's predatory tactics.
August 30, 2017
Graham Vyse
Trump Wants to Re-Militarize the Police. Montana Is Having None of It.
A 2015 state law refused drones, grenade launchers, and other military gear. Some see it as a roadmap.
August 22, 2017
Jo Livingstone
Wind River
Reveals the Tricky Politics of Feeling Bad for Cops
The disturbing new film shows how Hollywood uses white women to generate empathy for the police.
May 5, 2015
Stacia L. Brown
The Luxury of Hope
What the Baltimore prosecutor's charges in the Freddie Gray case mean to native residents
April 22, 2015
Cristian Farias
The Supreme Court Just Checked Cops' Power to Extend Traffic Stops
February 12, 2015
Cristian Farias
Bill de Blasio Is Caving to New York Cops
What happened to the mayor's pledge to reform the NYPD?
August 26, 2014
Phillip Atiba Goff
America's Lack of a Police Behavior Database Is a Disgrace. That's Why I'm Leading a Team to Build One
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