The Chicago Police Department has at least 13 active members of the Oath Keepers, NPR found.
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The union threatened that 10,000 police would go on leave when the mandate went into effect.
Last year’s uprisings have created fresh starting places for campus-based abolitionist organizing.
Human rights lawyer Derecka Purnell argues that police reform is an inadequate compromise to calls for abolition.
Religious leaders must confront the evils of policing, which is sustained by the legacy of white supremacist domination.
Government on every level has failed us by investing in police instead of environmentally conscious community safety.
The issue of hog-tying as a method of brutal restraint should command national attention and official condemnation.
Throughout history, the federal government has worked to surveil and disrupt Black power movements.
Physicians take an oath to do no harm. Upholding it requires fighting the structural violence that hurts patients.
The People’s Response Act provides resources to move first responses away from police and toward health experts.