Dozens Claim a Chicago Detective Beat Them Into Confessions
The Washington Post
A pattern of abuse.
A pattern of abuse.
A pattern of abuse.
The Case for Delegitimizing the Police
Rewire
We can’t say a world without police wouldn’t work when the places that supposedly “need” police have never received adequate resources to thrive.
‘No Cop Academy’ Protesters Disrupt City Council Committee Meeting
Chicago Sun-Times
“Over 500 people we surveyed in West Garfield Park said they do not want this cop academy,” said Monica Trinidad, one of the demonstrators. “There are way more resources of need in their community. They want jobs. They want mental health clinics. They want public schools."
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Other People’s Children, Part 2: Stories in the Aftermath, or “The Hate U Give”
Los Angeles Review of Books
The March 18 killing of 22-year old Stephon Clark by Sacramento Police once again calls our attention to the racist aspect of the problem of civilians murdered by law enforcement. Angie Thomas's award-winning Young Adult novel is among the most recent literary responses to this crisis.
Ruby Pinto on Art and Activism Working Together
Chicago Magazine
The focus of the exhibit, Do Not Resist? 100 Years of Chicago Police Violence, curated by For the People Artists Collective, is on the past 100 years of police brutality in Chicago. In particular, we wanted to draw attention to the resistance that’s happened here.
Erica Garner and How America Destroys Black Families
The New York Times
One way to describe Erica Garner’s last few years is to say she spent them fighting against police brutality. Another way is to say she fought against the forced separation and destruction of black families by the state.
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Police are the Problem, Not the Solution
The Indypendent
The author argues convincingly and in graphic detail that the problem with police in civil society is not just the lack of adequate training, police diversity, increased militarization or even police methods such as the routine brutalization of many people of color, but the dramatic and unprecedented expansion in the last four decades of the too-accepted social role of police. The problem, the sociologist-author insists, is policing itself.
US Police Killings Undercounted by Half
The Guardian
Harvard study finds over half of deaths wrongly classified, in latest example of databases greatly undercounting police killings
Kap, Cops and Confederate Statues: A Better World Without Double Standards
CounterPunch
Frank Serpico, who testified against NYPD police corruption in 1972, joined more than 100 African American uniformed officers who demonstrated at a rally supporting NFL player Colin Kaepernick's objections to police abuse and inequality. "Kaepernick was not disrespecting the flag or our vets. I believe that Kaepernick was protesting a corrupt system of justice that allows some police to use excessive force, even the taking of innocent life, without consequences"
John Oliver | Colin Kaepernick
Quarterback Colin Kaepernick hasn't been signed by any team in the NFL because they can't tolerate his silent public protest of police killings. But here's what the NFL does tolerate ...
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