When McKinney, TX police officer David Eric Casebolt brutally took down a teenage girl at a pool party in June, he was using a form…
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Police Killings: The Problem That Won’t Go Away Election 2016: Leid Stories Measures the Political Temperature Leid Stories discusses the fatal shooting yesterday of a…
The shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and the choking death of Eric Garner in New York City have shaken American society to…
Trying to predict the outcome of any encounter with the police is a bit like playing Russian roulette: most of the time you will emerge…
In America today we are witnessing what could be called an uncivil war; one in which a massive divide exists between elements of this government,…
Police officers are more likely to be struck by lightning than be held financially accountable for their actions.--Law professor Joanna C. Schwartz (paraphrased) If you can be…
Last week, as Baltimore braced for renewed protests over the death ofFreddie Gray, the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) prepared for battle. With state-of-the-art surveillance of…
When Feidin Santana recorded Walter Scott’s murder, his first thought was fear of reprisal from police. In an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, Santana said he…
We’ve heard the lie before. When accused murderer and former North Charleston Patrolman Michael Thomas Slager’s lawyer said his client “felt threatened,” it wasn't his…
If you want to know what a corrupt police state of revenue collecting, citation addicted bureaucrats look like, look in Missouri. A recent report showed…
An average of 545 people killed by local and state law enforcement officers in the US went uncounted in the country’s most authoritative crime statistics…
It is necessary to call things by their right names. The obscene regularity of police murders in the United States has reached the point where…