News Analysis | Prisons & Policing Did Defunding Police Cause Oakland’s “Crime Wave”? Here’s What Really Happened. Media and politicians call the defund police movement a failure, but it hasn’t been tried. By Kate Raphael , Truthout September 1, 2023 Truthout
News Analysis | Prisons & Policing When Police Killed a Trans Woman, Small Town Officials Scrambled to Protect Them Officials have refused to release body-worn camera footage and tried to stop circulation of a watchdog newspaper. By Kevin Revier , Truthout August 30, 2023 Truthout
Op-Ed | Prisons & Policing As “Tough on Crime” Messaging Loses Appeal, Will Progressives Seize the Opening? It’s time to replace the police, prosecutions and prisons with repair and restoration. By Johanna Wald & David J. Harris , Truthout June 3, 2023 Truthout
Op-Ed | Prisons & Policing DOJ Intervention Didn’t Stop Seattle’s Police Violence. It Gave Cops More Money. Seattle learned the hard way that federal oversight via “consent decrees” mainly served to increase police budgets. By Angélica Cházaro , BJ Last , Taylor Riley , Truthout May 28, 2023 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing Ocasio-Cortez: NYC’s New Police Contract Makes Cops Rich by Defunding Schools The lawmaker said that crime can actually be reduced by funding public programs that support communities. By Sharon Zhang , Truthout April 20, 2023 Truthout
News Analysis | Prisons & Policing The 2020 BLM Uprising Lives On in Houston’s Struggle Against Police Violence Against the growing and deadly profile of the far right, a BLM campaign in Houston is showing where we go from here. By Seth Uzman , Truthout November 29, 2022 Truthout
News Analysis | Prisons & Policing Chicago Votes in Favor of Removing Police From Mental Health Crisis Response The response to the referendum was a victory for organizers who have fought to get police out of mental health. By Tynetta Hill-Muhammad , Truthout November 19, 2022 Truthout
Op-Ed | Politics & Elections The Right Did Worse Than Expected, But That Shouldn’t Satisfy Progressives Organizing efforts paid off in the midterms, but the left’s work isn’t over yet. By Austin C. McCoy , Truthout November 9, 2022 Truthout
Op-Ed | Prisons & Policing Law-and-Order Policies Make Us Less Safe. The Trajectory of the ’90s Shows Why. Across the U.S., Democratic politicians are embracing playbooks that put mass incarceration into overdrive in the ‘90s. By Lydia Pelot-Hobbs , Truthout September 13, 2022 Truthout
News Analysis | Prisons & Policing Biden Is Still Issuing Calls to Increase Police Funding Racial justice advocates say both parties are exploiting “defund the police” for political gain. By Mike Ludwig , Truthout September 2, 2022 Truthout