Policing

The violence occurred on November 20, when a peaceful demonstration by Water Protectors was met with police brutality.

Activist Tara Houska says police handcuffed her with zip ties and held her in a dog kennel for six hours without charging her with a crime.

Abolition, then, is the only answer to a system whose currency is terror.

Historically, the RNC and DNC have been times of increased surveillance and policing.

A new investigation by In These Times explodes myths about who is most likely to die at the hands of police.

In 2015 police booked more people for small-time marijuana charges than for murder, non-negligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault combined.

Racial and ethnic fears and prejudices are bound up in law enforcement anxieties over control and use of excessive force.

Calling for an end to state terror is not terrorism.

The movement for abolition has meant renegotiating Asian Americans' relation to the prison industrial complex.

Protests continue in the San Diego, California, suburb of El Cajon, where police shot a Black man.