When you hear the words “police brutality,” here are some images that come to mind: An unarmed Black man being beaten or fatally wounded. Rodney King. Mike Brown. Terence Crutcher. Eric Garner.
For men, especially men of color, coming face to face with the police may be one of the most likely ways to die young, a new study out Monday finds. The study estimated that black men are twice as ...
A mural is seen on a boarded up business as a Los Angeles Police Department car drives by, Tuesday, June 9, 2020, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. Many businesses were boarded up during ...
Minnesota’s top cops have told how their officers of color are often racially profiled by armed federal immigration agents during aggressive traffic stops. Amid fears that the Trump administration’s ...
At the dinner table, in Congress, and on the force, police reform is a major discussion today. This is the third part of a series on Reimagining Public Safety. Click here to read the first part, the ...
Michael Brown was killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri, five years ago. Since then, U.S. police have killed more than 5,000 people. Researchers and activists only know about these deaths because ...
What good is a constitution if you can’t use it? What good is it if it tells you how to govern and you say: “we can’t govern that way.” What good is it if it proclaims democracy and you use it to ...
Asheville Senior Police Officer Joseph Jones IV likes being a visible presence as a resource officer at Asheville High. At 6-foot-8, Jones is hard to miss, spending mornings towering over most ...
A report gathers the views of mayors from cities across the U.S. about policing in their cities, law enforcement relationships with residents of color and police funding. As the country tries to ...
Asheville Senior Police Officer Joseph Jones IV likes being a visible presence as a resource officer at Asheville High. At 6-foot-8, Jones is hard to miss, spending mornings towering over most ...