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Prisons & Policing
Corporations Are Bankrolling US Police Foundations Without Public Oversight
Police foundations across the country are partnering with corporations to raise money to supplement police budgets.
Prisons Are Responding to COVID by Putting More People in Solitary Confinement
As many as 300,000 people nationwide have been subjected to solitary confinement in response to the coronavirus.
Sex Workers Have Never Counted on Cops. Let’s Learn From Their Safety Tactics.
Sex workers have kept each other safe outside the purview of the state for decades, and probably centuries.
On Juneteenth, Let’s Commit to Learning How to Abolish Oppressive Institutions
To avoid diluting the idea of abolition, we must understand and adopt its Black radical and anti-capitalist principles.
911 Services That Dispatch Mental Health Counselors, Not Cops, Gain Traction
Austin’s Expanded Mobile Crisis Outreach Team is gaining interest but isn't a panacea for ableist police violence.
The GOP’s Police Reforms Won’t Do It. We Need to Defund the Police.
The GOP police reform bill seems more concerned with stopping the protests than stopping the abuses that sparked them.
NYPD Wrongly Claims Shake Shack Employees “Intentionally Poisoned” Officers
Amid the protests calling for police reform, the police have frequently responded similarly by playing the victim.
Police Departments Attempt a Charm Offensive Amid Uprisings
Kneeling in “solidarity” with protesters is another attempt by police to gaslight people’s lived experience of policing.
The Movement to Uplift Black Lives and Defund Police Can No Longer Be Ignored
Activists in Minneapolis and mourners in Houston discuss the future of the movement following George Floyd's killing.
Protesters Take to the Streets in Atlanta After Police Kill Rayshard Brooks
The Atlanta police chief resigned after a cop shot and killed Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old Black man, on Friday night.