| Black Agenda Report

Alene Tchekmedyian
LA’s Gang-Infested Police are Deadly – and Costly
12 Aug 2020
Uniformed thugs calling themselves Vikings, Regulators and Banditos prey on the city’s Black and brown civilians, and even brutalize their fellow cops.
Clarence Taylor
Reviving the False Narrative on Police
22 Jul 2020
The antidote to police lawlessness isn’t more training, or fancy equipment, but putting the community in charge of the cops.
Jeff Haas and Dennis Cunningham
The Torture Machine, Racism and Violence in Chicago
19 Feb 2020
Chicago’s torture machine was both a real mechanism to produce confessions through pain, and a racist political instrument.
Netfa Freeman
The US Surges Into A Police State While Media White Out Structural Racism
08 Jan 2020
Trump wants to “surge” against urban Black and brown Americans in the same way that the US surged against Iraq and Afghanistan.
Nida Khan
When Even The FBI Can’t Hold Police Accountable, How Can Anyone Else?
20 Nov 2019
A brutal New Jersey police chief who routinely spouted racist slurs and threats was fingered by his own officers, but exonerated in court.
Sikivu Hutchinson
Justice for Atatiana, Abolish Police Domestic Terrorism
16 Oct 2019
Terror in blue: a white cop shoots through a window to kill a young Black woman playing video games with her nephew.
Shea Howell
Detroit Targeted for Massive Facial Surveillance
17 Jul 2019
A Black elected police commissioner was manhandled at a public meeting for protesting a draconian facial recognition scheme.
Vaidya Gullapalli
Will Chicago Get a Memorial to Honor the Survivors of Police Torture?
26 Jun 2019
The memorial would be a stone monument with the names of those tortured by Burge and his officers and the dates they were tortured.
Flint Taylor
Chicago Police Tortured Victims With Electric Shocks, Burns and Beatings
19 Jun 2019
“All you could feel was that machine he was running, that box with the wires on it.”
Carl Davidson
Book Review: Bringing Police Torture in Chicago to the Full Light of Day
05 Jun 2019
A new book reveals Chicago as a racist police state where the entire criminal justice system was complicit in torture.