Police Repression

Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Fragmentation, Force, and Fascism: The Architecture of the Repressive National Security State
21 Jan 2026
The state is not drifting toward repression; it is building it with serious intent. ICE raids, militarized police, and mass surveillance are the tools of a system designed to manage and silence…
Pan-African Community Action , Black Alliance for Peace D.C Citywide Alliance
U.S. Domestic Colonial Occupation Must Be Met with a Struggle for Decolonization, Not Reform
24 Sep 2025
A federal crackdown in Washington, D.C., is escalating a bipartisan war against the Black working class. This assault, enabled by local Black misleadership, exposes the colonial nature of policing.
Carrie Zaremba
U.S. Universities Spent the Summer Strategizing to Suppress Student Activism. Here is their Plan.
11 Sep 2024
Schools across the U.S. have altered policies and even landscapes in an attempt to make a repeat of last spring’s Palestine protests impossible. The result is a far-reaching war on free expression…
Jacqueline Luqman
Defeat The Fascist War On African People In The US And Abroad!
19 Jun 2024
The struggle to defeat the war on African people can be understood through an analysis of the ongoing relationship between African people and the state.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Eric Adams and the NYPD Repress Dissent
08 May 2024
New York City Mayor Eric Adams may well be the very worst of the Black misleadership class. He takes great pleasure in supporting apartheid Israel and he conducted police raids and intelligence…
Heather Ann Thompson
Saying Her Name
19 May 2021
Remains that were found to be those of a Black MOVE teen-ager who was killed by Philadelphia police in 1985 were treated as an anthropological specimen.
J. Lester Feder
The Police “Just Launched a War”
19 May 2021
Do some, most or all US police departments have a pattern and practice of racial bias that makes them fundamentally unable to regulate themselves?
Matthew D. Lassiter
Police and the License to Kill
12 May 2021
Detroit’s wanton killing of hundreds of Blacks in the civil right era shows why most of today’s proposals to make police more accountable are bound to fail.
Eric Umansky
What Police Impunity Looks Like
21 Apr 2021
They came into his own home and took his life for no reason.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Murder of Daunte Wright Ruined Derek Chauvin Show Trial
15 Apr 2021
The Black-murder-by-cop next door to Minneapolis shows the world the dehumanization that is built into the white supremacist DNA of settler-colonialism will continue to produce crimes against our c