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Police Brutality
July 7, 2016
Emma Foehringer Merchant
Is Minnesota the “Jim Crow North”?
May 23, 2016
Steven Cohen
Baltimore offers another reminder of how slanted the scales of justice are in cases of police killings.
March 3, 2016
Mikaela Lefrak
25 years after Rodney King, are we numb to videos of police violence?
January 31, 2016
Meaghan Murphy
Police chiefs are starting to acknowledge that fatal shootings are a systemic issue.
January 27, 2016
Steven Cohen
Before he shot Laquan McDonald, Jason Van Dyke repeatedly tampered with his dashcam recording equipment.
January 27, 2016
Steven Cohen
Ferguson residents finally get their say in the city’s settlement process with the Department of Justice.
January 20, 2016
Steven Cohen
Find out what your local government does—and, more importantly, doesn’t do—to limit the use of force by police.
January 20, 2016
Jamil Smith
The Tamir Rice grand jury decision just got even more infuriating.
January 18, 2016
Steven Cohen
The Democrats finally got around to mentioning “structural racism” Sunday, but they still didn’t debate it.
January 15, 2016
Steven Cohen
The Ferguson Effect gets the Trump treatment.
January 14, 2016
Steven Cohen
Does it even matter what and when Rahm Emanuel knew about Laquan McDonald’s death?
January 12, 2016
Steven Cohen
The Alabama police chief who shot Cameron Massey in 2013 also shot an unarmed black man 30 years earlier.
January 6, 2016
Adam Peck
Sandra Bland’s arresting officer has been indicted for perjury.
December 30, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Under immense pressure, Rahm Emanuel rolls out reforms to reduce police shootings.
December 29, 2015
Jamil Smith
The Tamir Rice Rule
Cleveland’s prosecutor made a mockery of the process for adjudicating police-involved killings. Here's how to fix it.
December 29, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Jason Van Dyke, the Chicago police officer charged with the murder of Laquan McDonald, pleads not guilty.
December 29, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Cleveland.com disables comments on all stories related to Tamir Rice to stem the “cesspool of hate.”
December 28, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Critics slam Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish’s misuse of a Martin Luther King Jr. quote as unrest roils in the wake of the Tamir Rice non-indictment.
December 28, 2015
Jamil Smith
No one will go to jail for shooting and killing Tamir Rice.
December 23, 2015
Steven Cohen
The Washington Post
exposes yet another gaping hole in police violence statistics: the frequency of repeat shooters.
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