News & Commentary about Reforming Police

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Mar 30, 2018

Not Charging the Officers Who Killed Alton Sterling Is a Travesty

Mar 23, 2018

LAPD Gang Injunctions Gave Cops a License to Harass and Control Black and Latino Residents

Mar 15, 2018

Beaten, Tased, and Arrested for Jaywalking While Black

Feb 23, 2018

New Data Reveals Milwaukee Police Stops Are About Race and Ethnicity

NYPD Officer standing on corner at night

Feb 23, 2018

There's No Such Thing as 'Consensual Sex' When a Person Is in Police Custody

Feb 12, 2018

Police Officer Wins Settlement From City That Fired Him for Not Shooting a Black Man

Jan 26, 2018

Federal Immigration Officials Conspired with New Hampshire Police to Circumvent State Law

Jan 25, 2018

The NYPD’s ‘Cult of Compliance’

Dec 27, 2017

When the Baltimore Police Locked Down Several Blocks of a Black Neighborhood

Protesters holding "Stop Police Brutality" sign

Dec 22, 2017

When Police Shoot a Man Who Was Stabbing Himself