Tag: policing
NYC Fails to #DefundNYPD—But Activists Are Just Getting Started
Although the battle to defund the police in New York City was set back ...
How We Can All Take Responsibility to Avoid Calling the Police
Calls to defund the police are picking up national momentum from Los Angeles to ...
My Experience of Brutal Arrest at a Black Lives Matter Protest
It happened almost by accident. I was walking past Union Square after dinner with ...
Philadelphia’s Latest Backward Step Is Nothing New
If the War on Drugs were seeking a motto, “One step forward, two steps ...
Silicon Valley Prosecutor’s Dog-Whistle Threat to Muslim Public Defender
Sajid A. Khan is a community leader and public defender in Santa Clara ...
Abolitionist Scientists Challenge Crime Prediction Software Research
One thousand scientists have denounced new software designed to predict criminality based off of ...
Don’t “Defund” the War on Drugs—Cut It Off
It took the caught-on-camera murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin—and ...
“A Million Experiments”—Leading Abolitionists Outline Roadmap to #DefundPolice
Amid an unprecedented mainstream debate over disarming and disbanding police, leading abolitionists published a ...
The Pandemic Accelerates the Rise—and Criminalization—of Tent Cities
Just before we went into lockdown, I visited Sanctuary, a homelessness organization in Toronto, ...
“There Is No Naloxone for Racism”—Kassandra Frederique Speaks Out
Since George Floyd was horrifically murdered by Minneapolis cops on May 25, events have ...
