Policing

With no national standards for screening police applicants, psychologists rely on tests unlikely to predict aggression.

Evidence is piling up of police officers who use excessive force on non-combative individuals.

Does the existence of the board make it easier or more difficult to organize for fundamental change?

“What happened here is the usual: the town fills up with police and the army, but nothing happens,” says one mayor.

If we don't address past as well as recent police shootings, the US is telling black men that their lives don't matter.

Between 1882 and 1968, there were 4,743 recorded lynchings in the US.

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 …