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Police Brutality
April 29, 2015
Stacia L. Brown
Having Black Cops and Black Mayors Doesn't End Police Brutality
A Baltimore writer on racial tension and the limits of diversity
April 29, 2015
Rebecca Traister
The Violence in Baltimore Didn't Start with the Riots
April 27, 2015
Jamil Smith
What Loretta Lynch Must Do Now
As Baltimore bleeds, the new attorney general needs to shift police culture in a short time
April 13, 2015
Jamil Smith
Videos of Police Killings Are Numbing Us to the Spectacle of Black Death
March 14, 2015
Jamil Smith
Language Police
The NYPD can’t delete brutality from its history.
March 13, 2015
Donovan X. Ramsey
It's Time to Focus on the Other Fergusons in America
March 3, 2015
Cristian Farias
Another Police Killing, Another Twitter Hashtag. But #HomelessLivesMatter Isn't Enough.
February 11, 2015
Donovan X. Ramsey
Want to Stop Police Brutality? Start Disciplining Officers.
December 5, 2014
Claire Groden
Don't Let Police Killings of Unarmed Black Men Become Another Forgotten News Fad
December 4, 2014
Danny Vinik
Why the Left and Right Are Both Angry at Eric Garner's Death
May 25, 1992
Barry Scheck
Following Orders
Why did the jury vote to acquit the police officers who beat Rodney King?
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