Denver Deployed Mental Health Workers Instead of Police—and Some Crimes Went...
Over the past couple of years, many cities have started dispatching mental health clinicians in response to certain 911 calls instead of the cops. One of the main goals behind this strategy is to...
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Footage Shows Ohio Cops Unleashing Hail of Gunfire on Unarmed Man
Horrific body camera footage released on Sunday shows police officers in Akron, Ohio, shooting an unarmed Black man, Jayland Walker, dozens of times. Police killed Walker, 25, after he fled his vehicle...
View ArticleBrett Rosenau Is the Latest Child Killed in a Botched SWAT Raid
Early in the morning on July 7, after a SWAT team bombarded a home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with chemical irritants and a flashbang device, detectives went inside and found the corpse of a teenage...
View ArticleThe Police Failed, Says a Texas Congressional Report on Uvalde Mass Shooting
In a new report, a Texas Congressional committee criticized the “systemic and egregious poor decision making” of the local, state and federal law enforcement who were present at the Uvalde mass...
View ArticleRelatives of Breonna Taylor and Jacob Blake Went to Ohio to Protest. Then the...
It has not ended. Last month, the police in Akron, Ohio, fatally shot Jayland Walker dozens of times after a traffic stop. A family mourned. Protests followed. For Bianca Austin and Jacob Blake Sr.,...
View ArticleBreonna Taylor Is Dead Because Cops Lied. One Finally Pleaded Guilty.
More than two years after police barged into Breonna Taylor’s Kentucky home in the middle of the night and shot her dead, a former cop involved with the case has finally been convicted. Kelly Goodlett,...
View ArticleBreonna Taylor’s Boyfriend Reflects on the Cost of Her Death at the Hands of...
A former police officer pleaded guilty this week for her role in the death of Breonna Taylor on March 13, 2020, when Louisville police fatally shot Taylor in her apartment. Three other officers are...
View ArticleThe Police Are Defunding Minneapolis
In 2020, the allocation of money within city budgets—and specifically the distribution of Minneapolis’ budget—became a national concern. The slogan was Defund The Police. The idea was to take some of...
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A Black Cop Sided With Racial Justice Protesters. It Cost Him His Job.
On a muggy evening early in the pandemic, Jervis Middleton, an off-duty police officer in Lexington, Kentucky, sat in his cruiser typing determinedly on his phone. The city was tense. One week earlier,...
View Article“Suicide by Cop”: How Police Present Killings as Unavoidable
American police speak in a peculiar lexicon. When an officer guns somebody down, it is an “officer-involved shooting.” When a department spokesperson speaks of “the use of force,” police violence is...
View ArticleThe Problem With Cop Storylines in Children’s Media
There’s a party going on on Sesame Street. A diverse group of young children is dancing. One muppet is juggling bowling pins. Another announces that there is about to be some live music. Enter three...
View ArticleHero of 2022: Those LA Police Funding Billboards
About a month after President Joe Biden declared in his State of the Union address that the answer to crime is to “fund the police, fund them, fund them,” a mint green billboard appeared above a gas...
View ArticleThe Death of a DC Teacher Renews Calls for Defunding LA Police
On January 3, Los Angeles police officers killed 31-year-old Keenan Anderson, a Washington, DC, high school English teacher, who was visiting family. He went into cardiac arrest after being repeatedly...
View ArticleThe Case of a 6-Year-Old School Shooter Raises Gut-Wrenching Questions
Ever since a 6-year-old boy shot his teacher in early January at a Virginia elementary school, the case has been difficult to comprehend. That starts with the bewildering youth of the child, who...
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