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Prisons & Policing
If Biden Wants to End Death Penalty, He Must Also End Death by Incarceration
More people are serving death-by-incarceration sentences today than the total number of people in prison in the 1970s.
New Toolkit Tallies Up Victories and Summarizes Strategies to Defund the Police
Over the past six months, organizers across the country have won significant victories in campaigns to defund police.
Cori Bush and Ayanna Pressley Lead Call for Biden to Oppose Death Penalty
Representatives Cori Bush and Ayanna Pressley are leading an effort urging President Biden to end capital punishment.
Eric Garner’s Mother Says We Must Push for Justice That Her Son Didn’t Receive
An international inquiry commission about racist police killings opens with testimony from mothers of the victims.
New Documents Suggest J. Edgar Hoover Was Involved in Fred Hampton’s Murder
Recently released FBI documents shed new light on the 1969 conspiracy to assassinate Black Panther leader Fred Hampton.
The Movement to Defund the Police Won’t Go Away When Biden Takes Office
Organizers plan to continue targeting city and state budgets to demand divestment from prisons and policing.
Republicans Are Using Capitol Breach as Excuse to Promote Anti-Protest Bills
GOP lawmakers are taking advantage of white supremacist violence to criminalize racial and climate justice protests.
Police Are Three Times More Likely to Use Force Against the Left, Data Shows
The data corroborates what many left-wing activists have noted anecdotally over the past week.
At Least 28 Cops Were Attendees at Pro-Trump Rally Preceding Attack on Capitol
One sheriff’s lieutenant described breaking into the Capitol as part of the violent mob as “the best day of my life.”
“Empowering Law Enforcement Is Not the Solution” Says Former FBI Agent
Michael German discusses the FBI’s intelligence failures and the possibility of collusion in the Capitol assault.