police brutality
Atlanta's "Cop City" Is Putting Policing Before the Climate
Weelaunee forest defender Tortugita was killed on January 18.
By Hannah Riley and Micah Herskind
Unit That Killed Tyre Nichols Disbanded by Memphis PD
Outrage sparks nationwide for Tyre Nichols' death after the release of the Memphis PD body cam footage.
By Aamina Inayat Khan
Protests Break Out Over Videos of Police Assault on Tyre Nichols
Nichols, 29, died from a police beating during a traffic stop.
By Lex McMenamin and Aamina Inayat Khan
‘No More Police’ Shows Abolitionists Are the Actual Realists
Mariame Kaba and Andrea Ritchie explain how "we don't actually care about children in this country."
By Lex McMenamin
There's So Much We Don’t Question About Mass Incarceration
We invest billions of dollars into policing and prisons while still insisting we are not safe.
By Olayemi Olurin
‘It’s Like a War’: On the Ground at the Iran Protests
This is what it’s like to be a young woman in Iran right now.
By Fortesa Latifi
A New Bill Would Reserve $100 Million to Help Heal Survivors of Police Violence
Rep. Cori Bush is introducing a first-of-its-kind bill to get mental health resources to survivors of police violence.
By Brittney McNamara
Democrats Are Scapegoating Progressive Prosecutors on Crime
Just look at the attempted impeachment of Philly DA Larry Krasner.
By Lex McMenamin
Torture Is Still Practiced in the United States
Our police forces use tactics we condemn elsewhere in the world.
By Ta’Mara Hill
Police Are Ticketing Students for Vaping, Littering and Profanity
Police are issuing costly tickets to thousands of students a year.
By Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica and Jennifer Smith Richards, Chicago Tribune
It Matters That Ketanji Brown Jackson Was a Public Defender
The next Supreme Court justice has seen the dark side of the criminal justice system.
By Alexzandria Poole
Kyle Rittenhouse Wants to Sue the Media
He's conservative grievance politics personified.
By Lex McMenamin
How Vigilantism Furthers Racist Policing
Ahmaud Arbery's killers and Kyle Rittenhouse both imitated police.
By Toella Pliakas
Canada Is Facing a Reckoning Over Police Brutality
Black and Indigenous land defenders at Fairy Creek are sharing their stories.
By Jerome Turner and Ora Cogan
The Officer Who Shot Jacob Blake Will Not Face Federal Civil Rights Charges
“If we had a heart to be broken, it would be. But because we’ve been through all we’ve been, we’re not.”
By De Elizabeth
Abolition Means We Don't Rely on Police
Author Derecka Purnell explores alternatives to policing.
By Derecka Purnell
What It’s Like to Live Under Electronic Monitoring
It isn’t really an alternative to incarceration; it’s an alternate route to it.
By Cathryn Crawford
Derek Chauvin Sentenced to 22 and a Half Years in Prison
George Floyd’s family requested the maximum sentence.
By Lucy Diavolo