News & Commentary about Reforming Police

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Sep 21, 2017

St. Louis Police’s Chants of ‘Whose Streets? Our Streets!’ Once Again Reveal the Warped Mindset Infecting Too Many Departments

Sep 18, 2017

Jeff Sessions Is Dismantling the Justice Department’s Community Policing Initiative When We Need It Most

Sep 13, 2017

The House Tells Sessions’ Justice Department It Will Not Stand for Civil Asset Forfeiture

Sep 12, 2017

The Minneapolis Police Department Is Finally Sharing Data on Police Stops. Other Departments Should Follow.

Sep 11, 2017

Here’s How Communities and City Councils Can Reject Trump’s Militarization of Local Police

Sep 1, 2017

Retired Police Major: Police Militarization Endangers Public Safety

Aug 28, 2017

Trump Just Gave Thousands of Bayonets And Hundreds of Grenade Launchers Back To Police

Jul 31, 2017

Donald Trump’s Talk to Police Officers Was Police-State Authoritarianism Distilled to Its Essence

Jul 19, 2017

Jeff Sessions Is Aiding and Abetting Police Departments Who Want to Seize Property of People Convicted of No Crime

Jul 17, 2017

Reform Is Finally Coming to Illinois’s Unjust Civil Asset Forfeiture Laws