Policing

Pan-African Community Action PACA
The Federal Takeover of D.C.: The Colonial Occupation Disguised as “Public Safety”
20 Aug 2025
The deployment of federal agents and National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. is a militarized occupation disguised as a public safety initiative. This move weaponizes the state's power to…
Black Alliance For Peace
End the Colonial Occupation of Washington D.C.: The People Demand Self-Determination and Self-Governance
13 Aug 2025
Washington, D.C.'s political subjugation exposes America's democratic facade. While claiming to champion self-rule globally, the U.S. increases repression and lays siege on the residents of its own…
Justin Fenton , Ben Conarck , Pamela Wood
Forensic Failures: 36 Police-Custody Deaths Should Have Been Ruled a Homicide, Audit Finds
28 May 2025
Independent audit finds patterns of racial, pro-police bias in Maryland’s chief medical examiner’s office.
Oliver Robinson
Trump Terror, Complicit Local Leadership, and the Assault Against Southeast D.C.
09 Apr 2025
Donald Trump’s new “Safe and Beautiful” task force is little more than a thinly veiled assault on Black working-class communities in Southeast D.C., accelerating policing, displacement, and white…
Pan-African Community Action PACA 2568)
Pan-African Community Action Condemns the U.S. Settler State for the Murder of Sonya Massey
31 Jul 2024
The murder of Sonya Massey by the Illinois police is a symptom of a larger, deeply rooted, systemic assault on Black and Brown working-class communities. The only way to protect the people and resist…
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.
Natasha Lennard
New York Spends $225 Million on Its Own “Cop City” — to Make the Whole City Run on Cops
12 Jun 2024
A proposed New York training facility shows how establishment politicians only understand governance through policing.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Papa Cop’s Pedagogy of the Oppressor (Apartheid state professors or SS students?)
15 May 2024
"Papa Cop’s Pedagogy of the Oppressor (Apartheid state professors or SS students?)" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Alec Karakatsanis
Police Departments Spend Vast Sums of Money Creating “Copaganda”
27 Jul 2022
US police departments spend tens of millions of dollars every year to manipulate the news, flooding the discourse with “copaganda.” These aggressive tactics give the public a distorted view of what…
Kenny Stancil
Investigation Shows Hundreds of US Cops Being Trained by Far-Right Extremists
11 May 2022
Policing in the United States is inherently racist and right wing. But individual members of right wing groups are also training police officers across the country.