Truthout
Policing
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Itemizing Atrocity
For blacks, the "war on terror" hasn't come home. It's always been here.
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Michael Brown and the United States’ Structural Violence Epidemic
Disproportionality in police use of force against Black Americans persists and cannot be tolerated.
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War Always Comes Home
The scenes coming out of Ferguson illustrate the stupidity of war and the stupidity of our corrupt political system putting weapons of war on our streets, just to pad …
To Terrify and Occupy: How the Excessive Militarization of the Police Is Turning Cops Into Counterinsurgents
A recent report from the ACLU indicates that policing is being militarized nationwide in all sorts of unsettling ways.
Armed With Military-Grade Weapons, Missouri Police Crack Down on Protests Over Michael Brown Shooting
The Missouri town of Ferguson looks like a war zone as police fire tear gas, stun grenades and smoke bombs to break up a fifth night of protests over …
Another Another Night of Violence in Ferguson, Governor Relieves Local Police
Police presence in Ferguson has been described as creating a near war-zone-like atmosphere.
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Another Unarmed Black Teen Shot by Militarized Police
From New York to Los Angeles to Ferguson, Missouri, America's police forces are being increasingly viewed as violent occupying armies.
New York Police Killing of Eric Garner Spurs Debate on Chokeholds and Filming Officer Misconduct
After a New York City medical examiner rules homicide in the death of Eric Garner at the hands of police, we look at the growing concern over the use …
What I Don’t Like About Life in the American Police State
To quote Number Six, the character in the British television series The Prisoner: I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my …
We Have Met the Enemy and They Are Us
The Snowden disclosures show not only the specifics of domestic surveillance, but also that the struggle we are facing is not privacy versus security, but democracy versus tyranny.