Policing

The Raza Database Project merged data sets from independent research projects to determine the victims’ ethnicities.

“This consolidation of force and coercion is very worrying,” one critic of the provision said.

Six years of tireless organizing by a coalition of grassroots activists led to this month’s victory in Chicago.

In hundreds of cases officers have twisted trauma responses to sexual violence into evidence of false reporting.

Award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson documents the history of anti-Black police violence in “Sound of the Police.”

Even as violent crime decreased in the U.S., media coverage of crime increased.

I didn’t want to be a fugitive, but parole supervision destabilized my life and kept me homeless.

Worlds without police and without prisons have already existed, predating colonization and slavery.

Media and politicians call the defund police movement a failure, but it hasn’t been tried.

Officials have refused to release body-worn camera footage and tried to stop circulation of a watchdog newspaper.