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Report Documents Police Use of Force in New Jersey
17 Dec 2018
Zayid Muhammad, of Newark Communities for Accountable Policing, was pleasantly surprised at the scope of a NJ Advanced Media report on police use of force in every city and town in
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Police Accountability Movement Declares War on Chicago City Council
11 Dec 2018
Veteran activist Frank Chapman says supporters of C-PAC, the proposed Civilian Police Accountability Council, plan to run candidates for every seat on the Chicago board of alderman
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Violent Cops are Health Menace
10 Dec 2018
Activists of Critical Resistance won American Public Health Association endorsement of the principle that police violence is a public health issue.
Cat Brooks
This Law Helps Police Get Away With Murder. Let's End It.
20 Nov 2018
Officers, who are armed and tasked to serve and protect, should be held to a higher standard than the rest of us, not a lower one.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Police Reform Doesn’t Work, Says Sociologist
13 Nov 2018
“Show me the American city where Black and brown folks are happy with the policing that emerges from” the usual menu of police re-training, body cameras and increased minority hiring.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
You Can’t Separate Police and Violence
22 Oct 2018
“Police reform can’t work,” said Micol Seigel, author of Violence Work: State Power and the Limits of Police,“because the rock-bottom function of the police is to do the w
Ramsin Canon
Death of a Torturer
26 Sep 2018
Jon Burge gleefully coerced confessions from black men to get them convicted of crimes they often hadn’t committed and keep them in cages for the rest of their lives.
Paul Street
White Lies and Blue Codes: Laquan McDonald’s Killer Goes to Trial
19 Sep 2018
Things could get very ugly in Chicago if the cop that killed Laquan McDonald is set free by a jury that includes only one Black person.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Chicago Cop Murder Trial Begins
10 Sep 2018
“The one truth” in former cop Jason Van Dyke’s not guilty plea in the 2014 killing of Laquan McDonald “is when he says, ‘I was doing as I was trained by the Chicago Police Department,” said author
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
“Brutality Bonds”
03 Jul 2018
Cities have gone billions of dollars in debt to pay for court settlements and judgments against brutal cops, with the profits from these so-called “brutality bonds” going mainly to large banks.