Tag: police
Despite court order, NYPD failed to properly monitor stop-and-frisks by aggressive...
The department didn’t audit thousands of stops made by its Community Response Team, which has a history of unconstitutional policing and has drawn hundreds of civilian complaints.
Will Mamdani abolish police, or simply make them obsolete?
What sets Mamdani apart from other progressive mayors who promised to be tough on police is a democratic socialist vision of a society that meets people’s needs.
Chicago promoted two police officers after investigators found they engaged in...
The Chicago Police Department’s promotions system allows officers’ disciplinary records to be ignored. Despite years of reform efforts, nothing has changed.
Unfettered and unaccountable: How Trump is building a violent, shadowy federal...
“When is it that we just decided to do things a different way? There’s due process, there’s a legal way, and it just doesn’t seem to matter anymore.”
The federal policing of DC has made us less safe
We must continue our defiance and resistance, or we will find that the entire country will be changed and made into a dangerous hostile white plantation once again but for all of us.
Looking up an NYPD officer’s discipline record? Many are there one...
Cases against officers frequently vanish for days—sometimes weeks—at a time.
21 bodycam videos caught the NYPD wrongly arresting Black kids on...
Police have frequently used that power to withhold footage, not only from the public, but also from civilian investigators.
Atlanta’s legal showdown over the ‘Stop Cop City’ movement
A critical legal battle unfolds as Atlanta seeks to overturn a ruling allowing nonresidents to participate in a controversial referendum on a police training center.
Oh look, police reforms didn’t work
To the surprise of no one but naive liberal backers of the police, expensive reforms to law enforcement have done nothing to curb the killings.
How police have undermined the promise of body cameras
Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars have been spent on what was sold as a revolution in transparency and accountability.
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Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.
Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Del Monte Bankruptcy to destroy 420,000 Peach Trees in California
A steady decline in demand for canned products as consumers shift toward fresh produce and several other factors led to this collapse.