A plan of a committee convened by the AFL-CIO, Teamsters and Service Employees International Union aims to encourage police union members "to speak up and take action if fellow members are violating their professional oath or abusing their power."
Law professor and scion of a widely read radical activist/author family, Rosa Brooks went beyond the blue wall of silence in her inside view of American policing. Among the retrograde lessons stressed in training, “Anyone can kill you at any time.”
The Border Patrol says it has authority to “conduct arrests” in Portland.
It embeds into official U.S. policy a shockingly extremist view of law enforcement as the enemy of the American people
Activists and politicians want a total overhaul of immigration enforcement—but do we have a real plan?
ICE is supposed to keep Americans safe. Instead, it's terrorizing refugees, families, and small children.
In a job with tons of power and practically no oversight from voters, law enforcement or politicians, corruption can be easy to get away with.
This new book highlights the technology at the heart of what reviewer Jill Leovy calls "surveillance-driven policing," and the heightened dangers this new set of law enforcement tools pose to democracy.
“There’s clearly a different Constitution being employed in poor neighborhoods where most of the people are black and brown than in our white neighborhoods, On an absolute regular basis police are stopping and searching people of color in this city with no legal justification to do it.”
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