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Josmar Trujillo
How Prosecutors Use Conspiracy and Questionable Testimony in “Gang” Cases
26 Oct 2021
Conspiracy laws, RICO statutes and "gang" designations are tools of police and prosecutorial misconduct and the maintenance of the mass incarceration state.
Josmar Trujillo
The Thin Blue Lies Behind Crime Wave Hype
01 Jul 2021
Data fail to show that bail restrictions or any other reform fueled the spike in violence during the pandemic – but facts don’t matter to the corporate press
Josmar Trujillo
The “Total Anarchy” of Wet Cops
31 Jul 2019
No matter how many Black people cops kill and abuse, corporate media amplify voices that shift victimhood onto the police force.
Josmar Trujillo
Papers Insist ‘We Need’ Secret Gang Databases—Just Like We ‘Needed’ Stop & Frisk
04 Jul 2018
“Police gang databases can lead to increased bail, harsher sentencing, erosion of presumption of innocence and even increased chances of deportation.”
Josmar Trujillo
Liberals, Trojan Horses and the Myth of Police-Community Relations
07 Jan 2015
by Josmar Trujillo “Community policing” is whatever the cops want it to be, coexisting with hyper-intrusive “Broken Windows” policing, saturation policing, and cultivation of community snitches. “…
Josmar Trujillo
The Case Against Bill Bratton
11 Mar 2014
by Josmar Trujillo If Bill de Blasio is really a progressive, why did he bring back the architect of Stop-and-Frisk as his police commissioner? When it comes to aggressive policing gospel Bratton is…