Like many of you, I watched the video of the Baton Rouge police killing Alton Sterling. There's no two ways around this--it was a flat out execution. I would say I am shocked, but of course I am not shocked. The police have been executing...
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This is a good piece on how the AFL-CIO is trying to thread the needle between supporting the rights of police unions to collectively bargain and be part of the.
This is a guest post from Simon Balto, Assistant Professor of History at Ball State University. He is a former resident of Chicago, and holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is currently working on a book about the relationship between...
I found this Frontline/Washington Post report on the effectiveness of police reform a little odd. The report finds that the results of enforced police reform is highly mixed, with some.
Sarah Jaffe has an excellent discussion of the relationship between police unions and the rest of the labor movement at Truthout. UAW Local 2865, which represents California graduate students, has.
The Times has a piece up today on a point I made at last night's Out of Sight event--the power of video technology to stir outrage is tremendous. Police brutality toward people of color is not a new thing. Police have been oppressing African-Americans pretty...
Dave Zirin has an excellent essay about reconsidering The Wire in the wake of the police murdering Freddie Gray. And he's right--one thing missing from the show is how the.
Maybe it's only a matter of time before police departments of the New Gilded Age start creating hunting licenses for rich people to shoot humans. Robert Bates, the reserve Tulsa.
Richard Cohen, America's least favorite racist uncle, just can't help himself, calling outrage over cops murdering black people in places like Ferguson, "the liberal Benghazi." Fred Hiatt of course is fine with this.
Pretty much true. Cops kill black person: "Let's not paint all police with same brush." Cop gets shot by unknown person: Millions of protestors responsible— Howard Bryant (@hbryant42) March 13, 2015
Unlike Noam Scheiber, I don't have a problem with Bill DeBlasio emphasizing police violence against people of color. Scheiber would rather see DeBlasio become an economic populist and unite the.