Policing

These laws were invented not to protect Black lives but to allow the state to define the boundaries of legalized violence.

Under Chicago's complicit government, instead of getting fired for killing Rekia Boyd, Dante Servin got away with murder.

Efforts to justify the killing of Dion Avila Damon by alleging he robbed a bank fail to recognize his right to due process.

With no solid evidence, prosecutors use questionable witness testimony and social media posts to depict a criminal conspiracy.

Bickham said the officers were Klansmen who had come to kill him.

While courts have ruled that filming the police is a First Amendment right, cops continue to harass those who record them.

If freedom of the press means anything, it should protect the growing number of people who use media to hold powerful institutions accountable.

People who've done their time and paid their fines still face barriers to employment.

Are gang raids and so-called “community” policing efforts really decreasing violence in US cities?

Women are working to transform the entrenched system of injustice that allows police to devalue and brutalize women of color.