Eric Garner

Author Paul Butler employs the chokehold—the maneuver as well as the metaphor—as, in his words, "a way of understanding how American inequality is imposed."

• By S. Melody Frierson

It's been used too often as a reason to approach and penalize people engaged in non-violent misdemeanors.

• By Mike Rowan

Despite protests in New York and beyond, police reform is in a dismal state.

• By Jared Keller

A conversation about the limitations of the “broken windows” theory and our unreasonable expectations of the police.

• By Lauren Kirchner

Shots were fired in Long Island, but there was no rush to call 911. It made perfect sense to Nikole Hannah-Jones.

• By Nikole Hannah-Jones