Tag: police brutality

The most effective reforms are the ones that build community trust between citizens and the police that serve them.

The police kill citizens with impunity, and that is exactly how the system is designed to work. The numerous little police states that exist in poor urban areas across the U.S. are models for a system that would enslave all of us.

Recent research has shown cities what works. For starters, hire more female police officers.

“New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office and the NYPD both recently announced they have launched separate investigations into the off-duty police shooting after reviewing the footage of the incident.”

On Wednesday, prosecutors charged Raja with manslaughter and first-degree attempted murder.

Sen. Bernie Sanders is now openly criticising current Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel for failing Chicago’s public schools and suppressing video evidence of a teenager’s death at the hands of police.

When it comes to people of color, the police make San Francisco “Baghdad by the bay.”

The jury, a panel of seven men and five women, deliberated for two days before delivering the verdict. One juror called it a “very hard decision.”

By failing to accept some of the terms of the decree, Ferguson may now be slapped with a federal lawsuit.

Just what the NYPD needs, a better way to inflict suffering.