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Joo-Hyun Kang: Ending the Stop-and-Frisk Regime
How do we as activists and citizens keep promises from being more than just talking points?
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Yes Virginia, There Is a Police State
Hyperbole? You decide if this is how you believe the police should behave when citizens are exercising their constitutional right to free speech.
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In San Francisco and Oakland, Residents Fight Back Against Tech Giants
Protests against tech giants Apple, Google and Facebook for encouraging eviction, gentrification and displacement in San Francisco's working-class neighborhoods picked up steam with protests on both sides of the …
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Henry A. Giroux | Radical Democracy Against Cultures of Violence
When aesthetic and economic criteria displace moral considerations and the search for intense pleasure and profits replaces the search for justice, a police state thrives, says Henry A. Giroux.
Report Finds Police Intelligence Gathering Tactics Threaten National Security
A lack of oversight in counterterrorism programs causes critical intelligence to fall through the cracks.
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From Top Cop to the Corporate Boardroom: Ex-Police Chiefs Spin Through Revolving Doors Into the Private Sector
Present and former senior police officials have joined the ranks of those revolving between lucrative corporate jobs and government service.
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Jesus Huerta: A Child Killed in Durham Police Custody
Another Durham resident has now died in a controversial encounter with the Durham Police Department. This time it was teenager and local Riverside High School student, Jesus Huerta.
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Drones, Tanks, and Grenade Launchers: Coming Soon to a Police Department Near You
Why are police departments across the country acquiring heavy-duty military equipment and weaponry?
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Who’s to Blame for Battlefield America? Is It Militarized Police or the Militarized Culture?
Is it possible that the rising number of ex-military joining the police force could be the cause of the rise in police violence and brutality reported across the country.
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Update on Killing of Andy Lopez
Daily peaceful marches, prayer vigils and speaking events honor Lopez and call for justice, as thousands in the northern California community continue to mourn and express outrage.