Policing

Police were created to protect the new form of wage-labor capitalism that emerged in the mid-to late-19th century.

“I was on the phone with my mom to arrange my pick-up when a searing pain shot through my ears, nostril and eyes, and spread across my face.”

The film tells the history of the Black Panthers.

If the normative assumption that white lives are valuable, while black and brown lives are disposable, were concretely undermined, the entire power structure, such as it exists, would be …

We expect the police to protect and not harm us; in return, they expect our respect regardless of any transgressions.

Every day, cops toss dangerous military-style grenades during raids, with little oversight and horrifying results.

After leading a controversial campaign against Mayor Bill de Blasio, the head of New York City's largest police union, Patrick Lynch, is facing an internal challenge of his own.

Hate crime laws lent legitimacy to a prison and policing system that has wrought immense damage on communities of color.

Attorneys for Muslim community urge appellate court: surveillance based only on religion is unconstitutional.

Even the media is not immune in the rare cases it acknowledges there are real issues.