Some activists have called upon lawmakers to defund the police, but the bill stops short of removing money or adding any for reforming departments, a Senate Democratic aide told NBC News. Democratic lawmakers returned to ...
The characteristics of police officers who shoot civilians closely reflect the pool of all police officers. (David Johnson and Joseph Cesario, The Conversation) In the debate over fatal police shootings of minority citizens, one theme ...
Last Thursday 26-year-old Botham Jean, a black man, was shot and killed in his own home by a white female Dallas police officer who claims she mistook his apartment for hers after getting home late ...
Our inaugural episode of Good Cop/Bad Cop – because everyone knows there are good cops and bad cops but not everyone knows what’s good cop behavior and what’s bad cop behavior. On our first episode ...
In a lawsuit filed last week, a 76-year-old legally deaf and disabled women alleges officers violently arrested, kneed and handcuffed her to the point of passing out, all for jaywalking. The incident took place in July ...
Fifteen men each filed separate federal lawsuits last Friday alleging they were wrongfully convicted and framed for various criminal offenses by former Chicago police Sgt. Ronald Watts and the Chicago PD. The corruption scandal surrounding ...
A young New Yorker, Mariah Charles, was stopped by police on her way to school and violently arrested for not carrying an ID. Her case is now in court, and Charles is opting to go ...
Every March, a diverse and inventive group of people converge in Austin, Texas to attend South By Southwest (SXSW), an event best known as a music festival founded in 1987. Since then, however, it has ...
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and while there are many disturbing factors that have contributed to this trend, one of the least-discussed is the complex system of parole and ...
A body camera video has just been released which shines a new light on the Tennessee police shooting of an unarmed motorist. Last April, police in Tennessee attempted to pull over Michael Dial for driving ...
C.J. Brown wrote four times as many pedestrian tickets as any other officer in Jacksonville over the last five years. Most of them went to blacks. His boss says he’s just “good at his job.” ...
Last Thursday CBS News-LA posted bodycam video that appears to show an LAPD officer plant drugs in a middle aged black man’s wallet. This is the first time that LAPD bodycam footage has ever been ...
According to a Sky News report, a recent carnival in Notting Hill was treated as a testing ground for police facial recognition systems. (Activist Post, Nicholas West) All things biometric are sweeping across the world ...
As officers tase teen: “I’ll keep on doing that until I run out of batteries.” The above video is disturbing to watch. It shows Jordin Norris, an 18-year-old in custody at a Cheatham County, Tennessee ...
A Chicago woman is tased by police and suffers a miscarriage but is now expected to receive a $500,000 settlement. A Chicago woman, Elaina Turner, and her boyfriend, Ulysses Green, crossed paths with a trouble-prone ...
A frantic and scared mom, Latasha Nelson, in Arlington, Texas recorded video of her 14 year old son’s arrest; an arrest based on zero evidence. The activist group Next Generation Action Network posted the mom’s ...
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