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Tag Archives: Police

Don’t let Rioters in Charlotte Distract from the Real Protesters’ Message

September 22, 2016 Black Lives Matter Civil Rights Criminal Justice Current Events Discrimination Inequality Media Police Police Brutality Racism 1 Comment

Prosecutor Sabotages Own Case, Denies Justice to 12-Year Old Victim of Police Violence

December 29, 2015 Criminal Justice Discrimination Legal Injustice Police Police Brutality Racism 5 Comments

NYPD Commits Black Woman to Mental Hospital after Illegal Traffic Stop

September 16, 2015 4th Amendment Civil Rights Constitution Criminal Justice Discrimination Inequality Legal Injustice Police Police Brutality Police State 5 Comments

5 Strategies Police Apologists Use to Protect Officers after a Killing and Minimize the Deaths of Black Victims

August 6, 2015 BlackLivesMatter Civil Rights Criminal Justice Current Events Discrimination Inequality Media Police Police Brutality Police State Racism 5 Comments

CDC Report on Opiate Epidemic: Since 2002, Addiction up by 63% and Overdoses up by 387%

July 8, 2015 Criminal Justice Discrimination Drug War Health Policy Police Police State Policy Regulation 1 Comment

Teen Imprisoned in Solitary Confinement for Years Without a Trial Kills Himself

June 12, 2015 Civil Rights Constitution Criminal Justice Discrimination Inequality Law and Order Legal Injustice Police Police Brutality Police State Prison Racism 1 Comment

The Little-Known SCOTUS Case that Could Lead to a 21st Century 3/5 Compromise

June 3, 2015 Civil Rights Criminal Justice Discrimination Disenfranchisement Legal Injustice Police Prison Racism Supreme Court Voter Disenfranchisement Voting Voting Rights 3 Comments

Baltimore Explodes in Riots over Police Brutality

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

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

NYPD Slows Down Arrests in Protest, Fails to Recognize Irony

December 31, 2014 Criminal Justice Current Events Drug War Law and Order Police 5 Comments

NYPD Officers Assassinated by New Yorker in Revenge for Eric Garner’s Murder

December 22, 2014 Criminal Justice Law and Order Police Police Brutality 1 Comment

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

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

Police Castrate Honor Student During Stop and Frisk

January 24, 2014 4th Amendment 8th Amendment Civil Rights Constitution Police Police Brutality Police State 12 Comments

NC Police Execute Disturbed Teen, Latest in Trend of Police Murders

January 8, 2014 8th Amendment Civil Rights guns Law and Order Police Police Brutality 10 Comments

Is “Stop-and-Frisk” a Form of State-Sponsored Terrorism?

April 5, 2013 Civil Rights Discrimination Law and Order New York City Police Racism Stop and Frisk Leave a comment

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