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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 20, 2016
Maggie Foucault
If you are still not convinced that police shootings are an epidemic, then this app is for you.
January 20, 2016
Noah Berlatsky
Child Sex Workers’ Biggest Threat: The Police
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.
December 31, 2015
Jamil Smith
Lawmakers are trying to fix what went wrong in the Tamir Rice case.
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
Emma Foehringer Merchant
The affluenza teen was arrested on Monday near a Mexican beach resort.
December 23, 2015
Steven Cohen
The Washington Post exposes yet another gaping hole in police violence statistics: the frequency of repeat shooters.
December 23, 2015
Paul Hirschfield
Why Are American Cops 100 Times Deadlier Than Finnish Police?
One professor decided to figure out why.
December 22, 2015
Steven Cohen
Police kill black people. Whether black people do, too, is irrelevant.
December 20, 2015
Steven Cohen
Why can’t Democrats speak out against the Ferguson Effect?
December 17, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
A Washington cop reportedly bullied a rape victim by threatening to eliminate her subsidized housing.
December 15, 2015
Jamil Smith
Loretta Lynch needs to help Tamir Rice’s family.
December 14, 2015
Steven Cohen
What does it take to get a police brutality conviction in Chicago?
December 10, 2015
Steven Cohen
New York is safer now that the police don’t harass people of color (as much).

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