Police Brutality

A demonstrator holds an American flag emblazoned with the names of victims who were fatally wounded by police officers.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

On the historic role of policing in reinforcing racial inequality and how it has led to black Americans' fear of police.

• By Nikole Hannah-Jones

1983's Policing a Class Society argued that the police has always protected the interests of the upper classes.

• By Elizabeth King

Pacific Standard recommends Strong Island, more cinematic memoir than true-crime investigation.

• By Kristina Kutateli

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

Timothy Loehmann, the police officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014, was fired on Tuesday.

• By Kate Wheeling

But if the past is any indication, they probably won’t.

• By Jared Keller

Nearly all of the demands have been studied, to some extent.

• By Francie Diep

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

• By Jared Keller

The Justice Department’s “Ferguson Report” will join a small number of significant public documents to be bound and sent to bookstores.

• By Lauren Kirchner

While Baltimore erupts, the Supreme Court considers a timely case.

• By Lauren Kirchner

Who are we really protecting when we treat kids like second-class citizens?

• By Megan Alrutz