Stephen Greenhouse has an excellent New Yorker piece on the troublesome question of police unions. Plenty of police violence happens without accountability whether the cops have unions or not. But uni
Lest we think that only the U.S. police engages in grotesque murders of people of color, let’s travel a bit north into Canada: The province’s police watchdog is investigating the death of
I was pretty annoyed at how badly many comments misread my post from last week on the relationship between voting and protest. Just because one doesn’t think these protests should be turned towa
Will it surprise you that research suggests the biggest reason for violence in protests is that the cops start it? No, I don’t suppose it will. You will be shocked, simply SHOCKED, to learn that
That our police are openly fascist is finally becoming apparent to a lot of liberals who really didn’t see it that clearly before. That means that a sizable percentage of the nation is seeing th
I don’t personally have a lot to offer on this subject that people far, far more qualified than I are already saying. But I can link to those qualified people. Here’s a few good essays. Fi
Of course Daniel Pantaleo, the murderer of Eric Garner, got off scot-free. Of course he did. That’s because cops are allowed to kill black people with impunity. On Tuesday, the Department of Jus
Spain has resorted to violent state repression in the face of today’s referendum on Catalan independence. The latest from Reuters (at the time of writing) is that more than 760 people have been