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Looking to Get Cops Off Your Campus? Start Here.
Last year’s uprisings have created fresh starting places for campus-based abolitionist organizing.
How Prosecutors Use Conspiracy and Questionable Testimony in “Gang” Cases
Donnell Murray’s trial shows what happens when police and prosecutors use their most powerful tools against Black men.
Rahm Emanuel Helped Cover Up Murder 7 Years Ago. Now He Wants to Be Ambassador.
Emanuel may be able to disassociate from the communities he helped gut, but Chicagoans still suffer from his politics.
“Business Improvement Districts” Quietly Privatize the Policing of Public Space
These corporate zones operate as an arm of forcible social control to ward off perceived threats to the flow of profit.
DEA Warns of Counterfeit Pill “Surge” Following Its Crackdown on Prescriptions
Experts say counterfeits are meeting demand for prescription pills as prescribing rates drop.
Mutual Aid — Not Police — Helped New Yorkers in the Wake of Hurricane Ida
Government on every level has failed us by investing in police instead of environmentally conscious community safety.
Policing “Hate” Supposedly Protects People — But It Really Fuels More Violence
The expansion of the “hate” frame fuels repression. Fortunately, grassroots opposition is growing.
Anti-Protest Bills in Southern States Face First Amendment Challenges
The new laws are part of a broader nationwide crackdown against protests.
The War on Drugs Comes to the Doctor’s Office
An undercover drug cop tried to shut down a doctor in Indiana. Soon, two patients were dead.
Maya Schenwar Says Defunding the Police Might Have Saved Her Sister’s Life
Schenwar says her sister’s death came after a long cycle of criminalization, making her chances of recovery much harder.