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Category Archives: Criminal Justice

Baltimore Explodes in Riots over Police Brutality

April 28, 2015 Civil Rights Criminal Justice Discrimination Inequality Police Police Brutality Police State Leave a comment

Comparing Punishments for Fraud: Atlanta Teachers vs. 2008 Banksters

April 20, 2015 Corporate Greed Criminal Justice Discrimination Economic Crisis Economics education Inequality Racism 7 Comments

Executive Buys Badge from Tulsa PD, Accidentally Executes Citizen after Confusing his Gun and his Taser

April 15, 2015 Corruption Criminal Justice Inequality Money in Politics Police Police Brutality Racism 6 Comments

Profitized Policing: When Courts Become Shakedown Rackets

March 9, 2015 Civil Rights Criminal Justice Discrimination Economics Inequality Police Police Brutality Racism Tax Policy 8 Comments

SCOTUS Lets Police Violate Your 4th Amendment Rights by Claiming Ignorance of the Law

January 22, 2015 4th Amendment Civil Rights Criminal Justice Law and Order Police Police State Supreme Court 5 Comments

An Overreaction to the Charlie Hebdo Shooting Threatens Free Speech

January 16, 2015 1st Amendment Civil Rights Criminal Justice freedom of speech Terrorism 1 Comment

2014: The Year We Wish Could Be Redone

January 2, 2015 2014 Election Bush Civil Rights Criminal Justice Defense Policy Discrimination Ebola Health Policy ISIS Law and Order Media Net Neutrality Partisan Fighting Police Brutality Terrorism Torture Voting 6 Comments

No Justice for NYPD Chokehold Victim Eric Garner

December 4, 2014 Civil Rights Criminal Justice Discrimination Inequality Legal Injustice Police Police Brutality Racism 2 Comments

Justice System Inequalities Perfectly Illustrated in the Michael Brown Shooting

December 2, 2014 Criminal Justice Current Events Discrimination Inequality Legal Injustice Police Police Brutality 44 Comments

Ferguson Prosecutor Throws Grand Jury Case, Lets Michael Brown’s Killer Walk

November 25, 2014 Civil Rights Criminal Justice Discrimination Inequality Law and Order Police Police Brutality Racism 37 Comments

Eric Holder Resigns (Kind of): What will His Legacy be?

September 29, 2014 Criminal Justice Discrimination DOJ Domestic Surveillance Drones Drug War Obama Police Voting Rights 2 Comments

American Police are Currently Engaging in Legal Multi-Million Dollar Highway Robbery with their “Civil Asset Forfeiture” Programs

September 10, 2014 Criminal Justice Legal Injustice Police Police State 2 Comments

Understanding Privilege in America Today

September 8, 2014 Criminal Justice Discrimination gender equality Inequality Law and Order pay gap privilege Racism 3 Comments

Studies: Legalizing Marijuana Reduces Overdoses and Domestic Violence, Increases Tax Revenue

August 29, 2014 Criminal Justice Drug War Marijuana Regulation Tax Policy 5 Comments

A Preliminary Look at the Michael Brown Shooting

August 21, 2014 Criminal Justice Inequality Law and Order Legal Injustice Police Police Brutality Police State Racism 10 Comments

From Fallujah to Ferguson: the Dangerous Militarization of American Policing

August 18, 2014 1st Amendment Civil Rights Criminal Justice Discrimination Police Police Brutality Police State Racism 19 Comments

The Purge Anarchy: Social Commentary on the NRA, Austerity and Class Warfare

July 24, 2014 2nd Amendment Class Warfare Criminal Justice extremism guns Inequality Legal Injustice Media nra Racism 12 Comments

Right Wing Politicians in Robes May Have Just Killed Obamacare

July 22, 2014 Congress Conservative Corporatism Corruption extremism Health Policy Legal Injustice ObamaCare Supreme Court 2 Comments

Gun Extremists: Deaf, Blind and Uncaring to the Thousands of Gun Victims in the USA

June 3, 2014 2nd Amendment extremism Gun Control guns Regulation 27 Comments

FL Prison Guards Boil Mentally Ill Inmate Alive, Don’t Get Charged with a Crime

May 26, 2014 8th Amendment Civil Rights Criminal Justice Drug War Prison Private Prisons Torture 2 Comments

The Eye in the Sky: American Police Develop Spy Planes to Video-Record Entire Neighborhoods

April 25, 2014 4th Amendment Constitution Criminal Justice Domestic Surveillance Police State spying 1 Comment

The Bundy Ranch Stand-Off: Free Riders, Armed Extremists and Federal Agents

April 18, 2014 2nd Amendment Conservative Criminal Justice extremism Gun Control guns Libertarian Tax Policy Tea Party 83 Comments

The Death Penalty must be Discarded to the Dustbin of History

April 15, 2014 Criminal Justice Death Penalty Discrimination Inequality Partisan Fighting Racism Supreme Court 6 Comments

School Stabbing Gives Perspective on Mass Violence, Knives and Guns

April 10, 2014 2nd Amendment Conservative Criminal Justice Gun Control schools 6 Comments

Affluenza Strikes Again: DuPonte Heir Allowed to Walk Free After Being Convicted of Child Rape

April 1, 2014 Affluenza Corruption Criminal Justice Inequality Law and Order Money in Politics Prison 5 Comments

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