police brutality
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Paranoid Style of American Policing
…It will not do to note that 99 percent of the time the police mediate conflicts without killing people anymore than it will do for a restaurant to note that 99 percent of the time rats don’t run through the… Continue reading
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Community Groups Work to Provide Emergency Medical Alternatives, Separate From Police
[Jens] Rushing says that during his time as an EMT for [a] small Texas city, police officers were dispatched with him on almost every call, sometimes becoming unnecessarily confrontational and problematic – especially, he said, on calls in which patients were… Continue reading
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Policing for Wealth
For Bratton to cite changes in gentrified Williamsburg and Fort Greene as justification for a focus on minor crimes means the strategy is about something other than the reduction of crime: Its about the reduction of the perception of crime.… Continue reading
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America Is Not For Black People
Michael Brown is not special. In all its specificity, the 18-year olds death remains just the most recent example of police officers killing unarmed black men.Part of the reason were seeing so many black men killed is that police officers… Continue reading
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Privacy Rights Myth: Limitations on the 4th Amendment and Illegal Search and Seizure | Learnist
The Hunted and Hated is a short film featuring recordings of police intimidation and brutality. This film includes current and former police who talk at length about the systemic abuse of stop and frisk for the purposes of showing increasing… Continue reading
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