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Policing
The Fight Against Police Brutality Is Just and Must Continue
Statement from El Grito de Sunset Park, Bronxites for NYPD Accountability, the Association for Pro Inmate Rights and New Yorkers Against Bratton.
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We Shouldn’t Blindly Worship Authority Figures
We need to recognize that the police are hired to serve us, and not the other way around.
Reasonable Wrongness
The American distaste for prepositional clauses leads them to think that in order to arrest someone there has to be “probable cause.”
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“The Hunger Games”-ification of US Police and the Community
When Blacks' protests about unjust policing are met with condemnation, is that on par with “The Hunger Games”?
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Hollywood, the Police and the Poor
The white affluent and usually liberal audience for films such as Nightcrawler, experience no cognitive dissonance in such depictions of urban life.
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Scenes From Ferguson: The Uprising’s Reach, and the Reaction
I've been in Ferguson since November 22, and I don't think a day has gone by where there hasn't been a protest, most often multiple protests. There may be …
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We Thought We Were Free
Authoritarianism is a disease. It moves and grows gradually, but inexorably.
Amid Justice Department Investigations, Protesters Call Out Cleveland Police Murders
As national protests continue, activists and concerned residents in Cleveland are calling for police accountability.
Why Are Our Sons Gunned Down? Parents of Black Victims of Police Killings Lead DC March
The families of slain African Americans led a rally and march on the White House.
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It’s Not the Law – but Prosecutors – That Give Immunity to Killer Cops
Police will not be prosecuted for their crimes until conditions of ungovernability in the United States' cities allow no other choice.