| Black Agenda Report

by Signatories from the Use of Force Community Working Group
A Public Letter to Mayor Lightfoot: A Call for Leadership
21 Oct 2020
The Chicago Police Department’s new use-of-force policy input process is a sham, designed only to create the illusion of community engagement.
Ali Winston
The NYPD Unleashes Its Most Brutal Cops On Protesters
21 Oct 2020
The police unit most likely to bust protesters’ heads is full of cops with long misconduct histories.
Interview by Alex N. Press
Why They Let Breonna Taylor’s Killer Go Free
14 Oct 2020
People in Louisville were in motion, but the politicians shy away from “the massive transformative changes that we demand.”
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Fight the Power: Resistance Radio at the Virtual GRC Summit
07 Oct 2020
The Grassroots Radio Virtual Summit is for anyone looking for ways to resist heightening repression and anyone who feels that grassroots radio is vital to their community, writes Ann Garrison.
Sam Levin
Blacks in LA Nearly Four Times as Likely to be Cited by Police
07 Oct 2020
Activists say these ordinances for minor violations are rooted in racist laws and anti-homeless policies. “it’s illegal to be Black in public.”
Abbie Vansickle
When Police Violence is a Dog Bite
07 Oct 2020
In some jurisdiction police dogs only bite Black people, but only a few that are mauled by dogs get justice.
Aurin Squire
The Blue Wall Of Silence
30 Sep 2020
A majority of New York City cops are non-white, but their union endorsed the re-election of Donald Trump, with no loud protest from the darker ranks.
Andrew Ford
How Criminal Cops Often Avoid Jail
30 Sep 2020
Dozens of New Jersey officers who have been criminally charged with official misconduct avoided the jail time called for under the law.
Tryon P. Woods
Still Missing and Murdered: Atlanta’s Lost Children Address Today’s Plague of Police Violence
23 Sep 2020
The docu-series reveals not only the ongoing predation against the Black community, but that policing is about social control, not crime control.
Katelyn Burns
NYPD “Jump Out Boys” Have Been Accosting People for Years
05 Aug 2020
When Trump’s federal cops snatched people off the street in Portland, folks cried “fascist,” but that’s an everyday occurrence in Black and brown New York.