Taking Freedom: Yes, Black America Fears the Police. Here’s Why.
On the historic role of policing in reinforcing racial inequality and how it has led to black Americans' fear of police.
Police Brutality
Why a History of the Police's Relationship to the Working Class Is Being Re-Released Now
1983's Policing a Class Society argued that the police has always protected the interests of the upper classes.
A New Netflix Documentary Addresses Police Brutality With Personal and Political Force
Pacific Standard recommends Strong Island, more cinematic memoir than true-crime investigation.
The Fight for Racial Justice Can't Stop With Fixing a Broken Policing System
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."
Cleveland Police Department Fires Officer Who Shot and Killed Tamir Rice
Timothy Loehmann, the police officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014, was fired on Tuesday.
Embodying the Spirit of Change in North Lawndale, Chicago
Exploring the rising tensions between Chicago police and citizens.
The Deaths of Two African-American Men This Week Should Catalyze a National Push for Police Reform
But if the past is any indication, they probably won’t.
The Research Behind the Black Lives Matter Policy Demands
Nearly all of the demands have been studied, to some extent.
One Year After the Death of Eric Garner, Reform Deferred
Despite protests in New York and beyond, police reform is in a dismal state.
The Government Report as Book as Object
The Justice Department’s “Ferguson Report” will join a small number of significant public documents to be bound and sent to bookstores.
Excessive Force in Custody and the Rights of the Untried
While Baltimore erupts, the Supreme Court considers a timely case.
The Criminalization of Youth
Who are we really protecting when we treat kids like second-class citizens?