San Diego State University Researchers Watered Down a Police Racial-Profiling Study
A draft copy of the study obtained by Voice of San Diego through public records requests was far more aggressive.
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Shooting at San Bernardino Elementary School Leaves Two Dead, Two Wounded
Two adults died Monday after a gunman opened fire at a San Bernardino elementary school just after 10:30…
Jeff Sessions Wants to Scale Back on Civil Rights Lawsuits
Attorney General Jeff Sessions plans to have the Department of Justice scale back on lawsuits against police departments…
How Wearing a Police Uniform Alters One’s Perceptions
New research puts a sartorial spin on the psychology of profiling. By Tom Jacobs (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)…
How Trump Made ‘Blue Lives Matter’ a Part of U.S. Domestic Policy
And how, in turn, he’s essentially criminalizing protest.
Los Angeles Is Cracking Down on a Notable White Supremacist Gang
But that doesn’t make its racially biased gang policies any better.
Inside New York City’s Unique Police Task Force Dedicated to Hate Crimes
For decades, a hate crimes task force has been on the case in New York. But even that…
African Americans Are Three Times More Likely to Be Killed by Police
One more dive into the statistics on race and police killings. By Nathan Collins (Photo: Yana Paskova/Getty Images)…
A Conversation With the Researcher Behind the Latest Study on Racial Disparities in Police Killings
Pacific Standard spoke with James Buehler about his research, which shows black and Hispanic men are indeed more…
Nearly 2,000 People Died While Being Arrested in 2015
A report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics offers new evidence to those who claim the federal government…