Police Violence

NYPD Police Commissioner Bill Bratton seems incapable of emerging from the broken windows mindset which depends on destroying the dignity of poor people of color.

The USDA is only one of a slew of seemingly unlikely federal agencies to have acquired an armed police force ready to enforce an ever-expanding federal code.

The new documentary ‘Ruben Salazar: Man in the Middle’ fails to address the questions raised about a possible assassination of the Chicano journalist in 1970 - or to assuage …

Los Angeles activists' vigorous push to reform the violent and corrupt Sheriff's Department may develop into an effective national program to reduce police violence, racism and classism.

An officer assaulted a woman in a waiting area, claiming that she was violating custody rules because she took a dose of painkiller for an infected tooth.

Rather than challenge the sociopolitical consensus and laws that create near total immunity for on-duty police officers during confrontations with civilians, McMillan and her defense team instead proclaimed her …

Power will not hesitate to use your identity against you if it can. The police violence to which Cecily McMillan was subjected was explicitly gendered, and in this she …

The law's passage is thanks to sustained pressure from the families of shooting victims.

San Francisco is experiencing a wave of unprecedented hyper-gentrification and urban removal.

The story of 18-year-old Kwadir Felton, shot in the face and blinded by Police Sergeant Thomas McVicar, then convicted of aggravated assault of an officer, repeats a too-familiar pattern.